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This is a coming-of-age story set during the early 1980s among the Pakistanis in Milwaukee. Hayat Shah, an impressionable adolescent and the only child of a well-to-do, secular family, finds his comfortable existence upended by the arrival of his mother’s childhood friend Mina Ali and her son Imran, who have fled a life of abuse and repression in Pakistan. Mina, a strikingly beautiful woman and a fan of Henry Miller and F. Scott Fitzgerald, captivates Hayat by schooling him in her liberal interp
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A good look at a Pakistani family trying to make a new life for themselves in the United States. The conflicts within family and extended family members as well as adapting to life in a foreign country while maintaining one's own values and customs provides an interesting read. The book seems to be roughly an account of the author's own life.
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