{"id":47968,"date":"2021-04-12T11:12:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T15:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=47968"},"modified":"2021-03-27T11:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T15:50:20","slug":"the-bad-muslim-discount-by-syed-m-masood-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-bad-muslim-discount-by-syed-m-masood-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47883\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Bad-Muslim-Discount-Syed-M.-Masood-BookDragon-526x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Bad-Muslim-Discount-Syed-M.-Masood-BookDragon-526x800.jpg 526w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Bad-Muslim-Discount-Syed-M.-Masood-BookDragon.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/>YA novelist Syed M. Masood (<em>More than Just a Pretty Face,\u00a0<\/em>2019) makes his adult debut with a seemingly disparate dual narrative headed for collision. Self-described \u201clapsed lawyer\u201d Anvar is drifting \u2013 he\u2019s lost his love-of-his-life-since-childhood Zuha; he consistently embarrasses his devout Muslim Pakistani American family; he\u2019s floundering in moldy San Francisco digs. And then his landlord sends over legal-advice-seeking, Iraqi refugee neighbor Azza, who lives with an abusive father and who\u2019s desperately trying to escape her violently manipulative fianc\u00e9, Qais. Implosive surprises prove inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Pej Vahdat excels as cleverly snarky Anvar; Hend Ayoub is Azza\u2019s empathic cipher. Individually, both debut narrators can expect long audiobook careers because they\u2019re that good. Alas, a dynamic duo they are\u00a0<em>not<\/em>, plagued by jarring inconsistency between chapters. Names are different enough to need a rewind, and while Vahdat portrays Zuha as patiently charming, Ayoub voices her as unnecessarily, unrecognizably caustic. A more careful production would have better served these notable performers and been an easy enhancement for Masood\u2019s provocative narrative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Bad-Muslim-Discount-\/pid=9744869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist Online<\/em>, March 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YA novelist Syed M. Masood (More than Just a Pretty Face,\u00a02019) makes his adult debut with a seemingly disparate dual narrative headed for collision. Self-described \u201clapsed lawyer\u201d Anvar is drifting \u2013 he\u2019s lost his love-of-his-life-since-childhood Zuha; he consistently embarrasses his devout Muslim Pakistani American family;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81,6,296,1021,6535],"tags":[9623,84,6608,6668,7631,22,59,10,11,9626,51,25,13,129,39,9625,432,598,170,44,9624,45],"class_list":["post-47968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-audio","category-fiction","category-pakistani","category-pakistani-american","category-repost","tag-bad-muslim-discount","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-booklist-online","tag-civil-rights","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-hend-ayoub","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-love","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-pej-vahdat","tag-refugees","tag-sexual-violence","tag-sibling-rivalry","tag-siblings","tag-syed-m-masood","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. 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