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Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American by Wajahat Ali

October 4, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

This is a difficult one to parse and review for me. The blurb makes it seem like it’ll be a series of essays in the vein of other comedians, focused on what it means to be Muslim and American. That characteristic blend of humor and drama via a look at an ethnic group that faces ongoing persecution in the States. And while it’s not not that, it’s also a complicated semi-defensive recounting of Ali’s family’s legal troubles and the related fallout in their Muslim-American community in […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Islamaphobia, Wajahat Ali

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:112 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Islamaphobia, Wajahat Ali ·
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An Unconditional American

Go Back to Where You Came From by Wajahat Ali

January 4, 2022 by Emmalita 2 Comments

Wajahat Ali’s Go Back to Where You Came From and Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American is an enormously readable punch in the gut. Ali is a gifted storyteller. He dissects his life and the world around him with a fine scalpel. He is funny, smarter than me, and can make me look at the ugly underbelly while I’m laughing until I’m not laughing anymore. As I told an earlier fan, I would love to move back to my ancestral land of the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: advance reader copy, Go Back to Where You Came From, NetGalley, Wajahat Ali

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: advance reader copy, Go Back to Where You Came From, NetGalley, Wajahat Ali ·
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