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Book Synopsis“Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!”
Trade Review"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"A tender knife-sharp analysis of racism . . . personal, painful, familial, and global" -- Juan Felipe Herrera, United States Poet Laureate Emeritus
