The True American tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a
Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreams of immigrating to America
and working in technology. But days after 9/11, an avowed "American
terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the
Dallas minimart where Bhuiyan has found temporary work and shoots
him, maiming and nearly killing him. Two other victims, at other
gas stations, aren t so lucky, dying at once.
The True American traces the making of these two men, Stroman
and Bhuiyan, and of their fateful encounter. It follows them as
they rebuild shattered lives one striving on Death Row to become a
better man, the other to heal and pull himself up from the lowest
rung on the ladder of an unfamiliar country.
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 longs to confront Stroman and speak to him face
to face about the attack that changed their lives. Bhuiyan publicly
forgives Stroman, in the name of his religion and its notion of
mercy. Then he wages a legal and public-relations campaign, against
the State of Texas and Governor Rick Perry, to have his attacker
spared from the death penalty.
Ranging from Texas's juvenile justice system to the swirling
crowd of pilgrims at the Hajj in Mecca; from a biker bar to an
immigrant mosque in Dallas; from young military cadets in
Bangladesh to elite paratroopers in Israel; from a wealthy
household of chicken importers in Karachi, Pakistan, to the sober
residences of Brownwood, Texas, The True American is a rich,
colorful, profoundly moving exploration of the American dream in
its many dimensions. Ultimately it tells a story about our
love-hate relationship with immigrants, about the encounter of
Islam and the West, about how or whether we choose what we
become."
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