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Jackson Heights in this book is a fictional locale with common features assembled from immigrant-friendly neighborhoods around the world where hardworking honest-to-goodness traders from the Indian subcontinent, rub shoulders with ruthless entrepreneurs, reclusive antique-dealers, homeless nobodies, merchant-princes, lawyers, doctors and IT specialists. But as Siraj and Shabnam, urbane newcomers fleeing religious persecution in their homeland discover there is no escape from the past. Weaving together the personal and the political The Good Muslim of Jackson Heights is an ambiguous elegy to a utopian ideal set free from all prejudice.
| Author: Jaysinh Birjepatil |
| Publisher: Fomite |
| Publication Date: Apr 26, 2012 |
| Number of Pages: 302 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1937677168 |
| ISBN-13: 9781937677169 |
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