The true American : murder and mercy in Texas
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Author
Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 25 cm
Status
Oliver La Farge - Adult
364.1523 Gir
1 available
364.1523 Gir
1 available
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
Days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks 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.
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Describes how a Bangladeshi immigrant, shot in the Dallas mini mart where he worked in the days after September 11 in a revenge crime, forgives his assailant and petitions the state of Texas to spare his attacker the death penalty.
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