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The true American murder and mercy in Texas

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 an...

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Main Author: Giridharadas, Anand (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Bhuiyan, Raisuddin.
Stroman, Mark.
Murder > Texas.
Racism > Texas.
Immigrants > Texas.
Forgiveness.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:319 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:0393239500 (hardcover)
9780393239508 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Anand Giridharadas is a writer, teacher, political analyst, and speaker, based in Brooklyn, New York. His career includes foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times (2005-2016), has written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New Yorker, an Aspen Institute fellow, on-air political analyst for MSNBC, former McKinsey analyst, and teaches journalism at New York University. He is the author of The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking, and Winner Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.

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