Home Boy: A Novel

Home Boy: A Novel

â€œNaqviâ€™s fast-paced plot, foul-mouthed erudition and pitch-perfect dialogue make for a stellar debut.â€
â€”Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

They are renaissance men. They are bons vivants. They are three young Pakistani men in New York City at the turn of the millennium: AC, a gangsta-rap-spouting academic; Jimbo, a hulking Pushtun DJ from the streets of Jersey City; and Chuck, a wideeyed kid, fresh off the boat from the homeland, just trying to get by. Things start coming together for Chuck when he unexpectedly secures a Wall Street gig and begins rolling with socialites and scenesters flanked by his pals, who routinely bring down the house at hush-hush downtown haunts. In a city where origins matter less than the talent for self-invention, the three Metrostanis have the guts to claim the place as their own.

But when they embark on a road trip to the hinterland weeks after 9/11 in search of the Shaman, a Gatsbyesque compatriot who seemingly disappears into thin air, things go horribly wrong. Suddenly, they find themselves in a changed, charged America.

Rollicking, bittersweet, and sharply observed, Home Boy is at once an immigrantâ€™s tale, a mystery, and a story of love and loss, as well as a unique meditation on Americana and notions of collective identity. It announces the debut of an original, electrifying voice in contemporary fiction.
Country USA
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2009-08-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307409102

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2009-08-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307409102

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