The Bad Muslim Discount : A Novel

“Perfect…I was torn between wanting to take my time to savor it or just blazing through. This is a book that I didn’t know I deeply needed.” BuzzfeedFollowing two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016 The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America.It is 1995 and Anvar Faris is a restless rebellious and sharp-tongued boy doing his best to grow up in Karachi Pakistan. As fundamentalism takes root within the social order and the zealots next door attempt to make Islam great again his family decides not quite unanimously to start life over in California. Ironically Anvar’s deeply devout mother and his model-Muslim brother adjust easily to life in America while his fun-loving father can’t find anyone he relates to. For his part Anvar fully commits to being a bad Muslim.At the same time thousands of miles away Safwa a young girl living in war-torn Baghdad with her grief-stricken conservative father will find a very different and far more dangerous path to America. When Anvar and Safwa’s worlds collide as two remarkable strong-willed adults their contradictory intertwined fates will rock their community and families to their core.The Bad Muslim Discount is an irreverent poignant and often hysterically funny debut novel by an amazing new voice. With deep insight warmth and an irreverent sense of humor Syed M. Masood examines universal questions of identity faith (or lack thereof) and belonging through the lens of Muslim Americans. About the Author SYED M. MASOOD grew up in Karachi Pakistan. A first-generation immigrant twice over he has been a citizen of three different countries and nine different cities. He currently lives in Sacramento California where he is a practicing attorney.