{"product_id":"go-back-to-where-you-came-from-9780393867978","title":"Go Back to Where You Came From","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wajahat Ali’s deeply personal and keenly perceptive memoir is a clear-eyed account of his American immigrant experience.… We are all fortunate to be on the receiving end of not only his intellect, but his humanity and heart.\" -- Katie Couric, Emmy Award-winning journalist\u003cbr\u003e\"This is the book I’ve been hoping Wajahat Ali would write for ten years—hilarious, stylistically fearless, deeply humane.\" -- Dave Eggers, author of The Every\u003cbr\u003e\"Wajahat Ali has already proven that he is the fastest mind on TV. Now his fans can sample his brilliance on the page.\" -- Ishmael Reed, author of The Terrible Fours\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a tour de force—equal parts tragedy and laugh-out-loud comedy. With brazen wit, rigorous analysis, and searing insight, Wajahat Ali speaks to the first-generation American’s dilemma of being both ‘us’ and ‘them.’\" -- Suleika Jaouad, author of Between Two Kingdoms\u003cbr\u003e\"A hilarious and heartwarming treatise on what it truly means to be American in the twenty-first century. You’ll be laughing so hard you won’t even notice the inevitable Islamic takeover of America! Oops, I’ve said too much.\" -- Reza Aslan, author of God: A Human History\u003cbr\u003e\"Wajahat Ali brilliantly and lovingly unpacks the complicated history and urgent lived experience of being otherized in America.… [A] rich feast for all the senses—a must-read.\" -- S. E. Cupp, author of Losing Our Religion\u003cbr\u003e\"This powerful and moving book is, at its heart, a love story. The beloved, flawed and tragic -- so flawed, so tragic -- is America. The lover's hope is always undermined. And yet his hope somehow endures.\" -- Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West\u003cbr\u003e\"Find a place on your bookshelf between Mark Twain and James Baldwin. Read this book before putting it there.\" -- Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny\u003cbr\u003e\"With wit and charm, Ali has delivered a masterful meditation on growing up brown in America...An intoxicating rejection of cynicism in the face of existential threats to multiracial democracy, and a clear-eyed call to arms against the forces seeking to stop the expansion of American democracy. An affirmation of the country America could be.\" -- Mara Gay, editorial board - New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"In prose at times hilarious and at other times deeply moving, Wajahat Ali chronicles a uniquely American experience. All will benefit from reading his story.\" -- Representative Ilhan Omar\u003cbr\u003e\"Full of wisdom and compassion, not to mention Ali’s signature humor. As educational as it is entertaining. I wish my nine-year-old immigrant self had this book when the playground kids were telling me to go back where I came from.”\" -- Gary Shteyngart, author of Our Country Friends\u003cbr\u003e\"A tender knife-sharp analysis of racism . . . personal, painful, familial, and global\" -- Juan Felipe Herrera, United States Poet Laureate Emeritus","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525168144727,"sku":"9780393867978","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393867978.jpg?v=1731859492","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/go-back-to-where-you-came-from-9780393867978","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}