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In Jackson Heights, New York`s Little India, hardworking, honest-to-goodness traders rub shoulders with ruthless entrepreneurs, reclusive antique dealers, homeless nobodies, larger-than-life merchant princes, lawyers, doctors and IT specialists. Into this heady mix land the urbane and sophisticated Amolinis”Siraj and Shabnam”sectarian violence in their Central Indian hometown having driven them into enforced exile. While Shabnam, enrolls in law school, Siraj makes peace with his new surroundings and his academic career takes off. But his secular moorings suffer a severe shock when, with the banning of The Satanic Verses and the storming of the Babri Masjid, large cracks begin to disfigure the harmonious faA§ade of Jackson Heights and even his relationship with his wife. He recuperates from what he thinks is the ultimate disaster”he is falsely charged, by the FBI, of complicity in a terrorist plot to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge”only to be rudely yanked back to the primal darkness of 9/11.
Weaving together the personal and the political, The Good Muslim of Jackson Heights is absorbing and a devastating portrait of our divided world.
ISBN-9780143068297
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Pages : 256
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