The true American
Subtitle: murder and mercy in Texas
By: Anand Giridharadas
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780393239508
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Murder; Forgiveness; Racism; Immigrants
Description: Days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walked into the Dallas minimart where Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a former Bangladesh Air Force officer, has found temporary work and shoots him, nearly killing him. Giridharadas traces the making of these two men, Stroman and Bhuiyan, and of their fateful encounter, following them as they rebuild shattered lives. Ten years after the shooting, an Islamic pilgrimage seeds in Bhuiyan a strange idea: if he is ever to be whole, he must reenter Stroman's life. He publicly forgives Stroman, and wages a legal and public-relations campaign to have his attacker spared from the death penalty.
Table of contents: title: Leavings; title: The chore; title: Outpatient; title: 187; title: Hospitaliano!; title: Please write back; title: Frequent-flier miles; title: Gadfly; title: The new American; title: Bro; title: Uncle; title: PowerPoint; title: Hula hoop; title: Arrivals.