Bibliograph

The true American, murder and mercy in Texas, Anand Giridharadas

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The true American, murder and mercy in Texas, Anand Giridharadas

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The true American

Oclc number

873237912

Responsibility statement

Anand Giridharadas

Sub title

murder and mercy in Texas

Summary

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

Leavings -- The chore -- Outpatient -- 187 -- Hospitaliano! -- Please write back -- Frequent-flier miles -- Gadfly -- The new American -- Bro -- Uncle -- PowerPoint -- Hula hoop -- Arrivals

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