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Author Giridharadas, Anand.

Title The true American : murder and mercy in Texas / Anand Giridharadas.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
©2014

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 GIRIDHARADAS    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  364.152 GIR    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 GIRIDHARADAS    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.1523 GIR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 G44T    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  364.15 GIRIDHARADAS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  364.1523 GI    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 319 pages ; 25 cm
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.
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.
Contents Leavings -- The chore -- Outpatient -- 187 -- Hospitaliano! -- Please write back -- Frequent-flier miles -- Gadfly -- The new American -- Bro -- Uncle -- PowerPoint -- Hula hoop -- Arrivals.
Subject Bhuiyan, Raisuddin.
Stroman, Mark.
Murder -- Texas.
Racism -- Texas.
Immigrants -- Texas.
Forgiveness.
ISBN 9780393239508 (hardcover)
0393239500 (hardcover)
9780393350791 15.95
0393350797 15.95
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