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Iftin, Abdi Nor,
author.
Call me American :
a memoir /
Abdi Nor Iftin with Max Alexander.
First edition.
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2018.
310 pages ;
22 cm.
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"This is a Borzoi Book.".
Under the neem tree -- The first bullets -- Trail of thorns -- City of women and children -- Arabic to English -- The one they call American -- Buufis -- Wedding vows -- Sin and punishment -- Trapped -- No number -- Messages from Mogadishu -- Little Mogadishu -- Long odds -- White rooms -- Respect -- Epilogue.
Shares the author's journey from Somalia to the United States, including his early love of American music and movies, his survival under a radical Islamist group, and how he made his way to the United States using the annual visa lottery.
2018/7.
Iftin, Abdi Nor.
Somali Americans
Maine
Biography.
Immigrants
Maine
Biography.
Muslims
Maine
Biography.
Alexander, Max,
1957-,
author.