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"My father moved us to the United States because of a word. It had been a phrase whose meaning fascinated him. It had been a singularly American phrase, a fat phrase, a word that can only be spoken with decadent take great pride in. That phrase was . . . Brunch! 'The beauty of America,' he'd say, 'is they have got much food, that between breakfast and lunch they need to stop and eat again.'"
—from "International House of Patel" If you are an Indo-Muslim-British-American professional who has put in more time in pubs than mosques over the past few decades, turns out it's just a little tough to describe who you are or where you are from. In No Land's Man Aasif Mandvi explores this and other conundrums through experiences about his family, ambition, desire, and culture, experiences that range between dealing with his brunch-obsessed father, to being a high-school-age Michael Jackson impersonator, to getting started with a Bible study group in order to seduce a nice Christian young lady, to improbably becoming America's favorite Muslim/Indian/Arab/Dark brown/Doctor correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. This is a book filled up with passion, discovery, and humor. Mandvi hilariously and poignantly represents a journey that will resonate with whoever has had to understand his / her way in the murky space between lands. Or anyone who really loves brunch.
