The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism

The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism image
ISBN-10:

1555976271

ISBN-13:

9781555976279

Author(s): Baker, Deborah
Edition: Reprint
Released: Sep 04, 2012
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
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Description:

*A 2011 National Book Award Finalist*

A spellbinding story of renunciation, conversion, and radicalism from Pulitzer Prize-finalist biographer Deborah Baker

What drives a woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of permanent exile in Pakistan? The Convert, a finalist for the National Book Award and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2011, tells the gripping story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore.












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