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A timely book about the radicalization of an Muslim teen in California - about where personality truly is placed and how exactly we find it. Laguna Beach, California, 2010. Reza Courdee, a 14-year-old straight-A university student and chemistry whiz, takes his first strike of container. In so long as it requires to inhale and exhale, he is changed from the high-achieving boy of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He manages to lose his virginity, takes up browsing on, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the very first time, Reza - now Rez - feels like an American teen. Life is easy; even lying to his rigorous parents comes easily. But he changes again, falling out in clumps with the bad son surfers and in with several kids more awake to the earth around them, who show his history, and whose ideas complete him with a very different sense of purpose. Within a time Reza and his lover are making their way to Syria to participate a Muslim region rising from the ashes of the civil war. Well-timed, nuanced, and emotionally forceful, A Good Country is a gorgeous yoga on modern life, religious radicalization, and a young man found among greatly different worlds. Everything we are remaining with at the remarkable end is not an examination of good or bad, East versus Western, but a lingering question that pertains to all modern souls: Do we decide how to have, or is our life made a decision for us?
