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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas…
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (2015. Auflage)

von Anand Giridharadas (Autor)

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Days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the Dallas minimart where Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a former Bangladesh Air Force officer, has found temporary work and shoots him, nearly killing him. Giridharadas traces the making of these two men, Stroman and Bhuiyan, and of their fateful encounter, following them as they rebuild shattered lives. 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 publicly forgives Stroman, and wages a legal and public-relations campaign to have his attacker spared from the death penalty. Describes how a Bangladeshi immigrant, shot in the Dallas mini mart where he worked in the days after September 11 in a revenge crime, forgives his assailant and petitions the state of Texas to spare his attacker the death penalty.… (mehr)
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Titel:The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Autoren:Anand Giridharadas (Autor)
Info:W. W. Norton & Company (2015), Edition: Reprint, 336 pages
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I identified with this book from the opening pages which talked about the petty and not so petty criminals Ras Bhuiyan was subjected to at a convenience store in Texas. No victim of crime, no victim of so many crimes ever entirely buries the shock and worry you feel when attacked or threatened with violence. As a store owner you worry more for your staff than for yourself. You worry about the calls from the security company at night, you worry that some evening you won't make it home to your family. You don't ever know why the thugs get you in their sites, you just deal with it and try to move on. Life is like that. How Bhuiyan found the strength to strike back at the cycle of violence and hatred is what makes this story incredible. I don't know that I would do the same. ( )
  MylesKesten | Jan 23, 2024 |
Shortly after 9/11, a white man murdered two immigrant gas station attendants and shot a third in the face. Giridharas tracks both the killer and his surviving victim as “true Americans”: the one whose persistent criminality didn’t prevent him defining himself as a patriot and rightful inheritor of white power in the country, and the other who emigrated from Pakistan to chase the American dream of self-invention and material success. Eventually, the survivor decided that the best way to honor his religion was to advocate for his assailant’s life (he’d been sentenced to death for one of the killings—but only because the prosecution argued that the hate crime aspects didn’t matter as much as the robbery, because in Texas that’s what could secure the death penalty). Readers are very much left to draw their own conclusions about, for example, the sincerity of the killer’s quasi-repentance—he went to his grave insisting that his motives were good even if he now knew his actions were bad—but it’s hard not to hear a story of deep, deep American rot. For example, being shot leaves the victim in crippling debt, and it’s almost accidental that he manages to get out with the help of a victim’s compensation fund; the killer was surrounded by people who knew he was both violent and an outspoken racist, but they still decided that he was joking when he said he wanted to kill nonwhites, because after all he was not too much different from them. His family was mired in poverty; one of his children seeks to get out by hoping to work her way to managing a McDonald’s, which seems like almost unimaginable security to her. ( )
  rivkat | Aug 16, 2019 |
Sad story. Too bad the book is so poorly written. I think the writer was trying to just dump anything into it to get a book length manuscript.

Writer is no writer. I couldn't finish it after about 2/3's I had had enough. ( )
  yhgail | Feb 20, 2019 |
The True American feels padded and it meanders a bit, especially at the end. But the story of how a victim sought to prevent the execution of a man who nearly killed him is pretty gripping, and I thought that the author did a marvelous job of treating both victim and perpetrator as real people rather than archetypes. ( )
  GaylaBassham | May 27, 2018 |
The True American feels padded and it meanders a bit, especially at the end. But the story of how a victim sought to prevent the execution of a man who nearly killed him is pretty gripping, and I thought that the author did a marvelous job of treating both victim and perpetrator as real people rather than archetypes. ( )
  gayla.bassham | Nov 7, 2016 |
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Days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the Dallas minimart where Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a former Bangladesh Air Force officer, has found temporary work and shoots him, nearly killing him. Giridharadas traces the making of these two men, Stroman and Bhuiyan, and of their fateful encounter, following them as they rebuild shattered lives. 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 publicly forgives Stroman, and wages a legal and public-relations campaign to have his attacker spared from the death penalty. Describes how a Bangladeshi immigrant, shot in the Dallas mini mart where he worked in the days after September 11 in a revenge crime, forgives his assailant and petitions the state of Texas to spare his attacker the death penalty.

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