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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I am the only left-handed person in my family, and this was not seen as a praiseworthy characteristic. I was also known as very healthy and mashallah, which means Allah has willed it. I inherited my father's unique back-hair patterns.
#2 The first step to becoming American is to create your own superhero origin story. Share it with others, and they will understand...
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"A rollercoaster ride of a memoir, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, by the journalist, playwright, and political activist Wajahat Ali. "Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!" This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where exactly? His hometown in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he can't afford rent? Awkward, left-handed, suffering...
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Go back to where you came from, you terrorist! This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but now an unaffordable place to live? Or Pakistan, the country his parents left behind a half-century ago? While living the American Dream, young Wajahat devoured comic books (devoid of brown superheroes)...
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