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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid
No two ways about it: this book is perfect. So much fiercer and more intimate than I'd imagined any novel could be; indeed, it's the book's contradictory quality that propels it to such success in my view. Hamid is not only a master of voice and narrative, but of emotion and structure, of heart and intellect, of truth and culture than any I've read. He understands not only America, but America's place in the world, and by extension his narrator's place in America, his native Lahore, and the seeming divide between them, despite their existence along the exact same plane. Hamid's craftsmanship shows precisely what fiction has great power and efficacy to do; this book feels important, both personally as well as a piece of American (and indeed, world) literature.