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Suppose a terrorist attempted to destroy you. If you could face him again, on your conditions, what would you do? The True American tells the storyline of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Make official who dreams of immigrating to America and working in technology. But times after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" known as Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the Dallas minimart where Bhuiyan has found momentary work and shoots him, maiming and practically killing him. Two other victims, at other gasoline stations, aren't so blessed, dying at once. The True American traces the making of the two men, Stroman and Bhuiyan, and of their fateful encounter. It employs them as they repair shattered lives - one striving on Loss of life Row to become an improved man, the other to heal and take himself up from the cheapest rung on the ladder of an unfamiliar country. Ten years after the shooting, an Islamic pilgrimage seeds in Bhuiyan a strange idea: if he is ever to be whole, he must reenter Stroman's life. He longs to confront Stroman and speak to him about the episode that improved their lives. Bhuiyan publicly forgives Stroman, in the name of his religion and its notion of mercy. Then he pay a legal and PR advertising campaign, against the Point out of Tx and Governor Rick Perry, to have his attacker spared from the loss of life penalty. Which range from Texas's juvenile justice system to the swirling masses of pilgrims at the Hajj in Mecca; from a biker bar to the immigrant mosque in Dallas; from young armed forces cadets in Bangladesh to elite paratroopers in Israel; from a wealthy household of chicken breast importers in Karachi, Pakistan; to the sober residences of Brownwood, Tx, The True American is a abundant, colourful, profoundly moving exploration of the American wish in its many proportions. Ultimately, it tells a story about our love-hate romance with immigrants, about the encounter between Islam and the Western, about how exactly - or whether - we choose what we should become.
