Brown boy a memoir
(Large Print)
Author
Published
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Status
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Alamosa Public Library - LARGE PRINT | LP 92 AZIZ | On Shelf |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Adult children of immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Aziz, Omer.
Canada -- Race relations.
Children of immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
Creative nonfiction.
Large print books.
Muslims -- Canada -- Biography.
Pakistanis -- Canada -- Biography.
Pakistanis -- Cultural assimilation -- Canada.
Pakistanis -- Race identity -- Canada.
Autobiographies.
Aziz, Omer.
Canada -- Race relations.
Children of immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
Creative nonfiction.
Large print books.
Muslims -- Canada -- Biography.
Pakistanis -- Canada -- Biography.
Pakistanis -- Cultural assimilation -- Canada.
Pakistanis -- Race identity -- Canada.
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Published
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Regular print version previously published by Scribner.
Description
"In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy. He fears the violence and despair of the world around him, and sees a dangerous path ahead, succumbing to aimlessness, apathy, and rage. In his senior year of high school, Omer quickly begins to realize that education can open up the wider world. But as he falls in love with books, and makes his way to Queen's University in Ontario, Sciences Po in Paris, Cambridge University in England, and finally Yale Law School, he continually confronts his own feelings of doubt and insecurity at being an outsider, a brown-skinned boy in an elite white world. He is searching for community and identity, asking questions of himself and those he encounters, and soon finds himself in difficult situations -- whether in the suburbs of Paris or at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Yet the more books Omer reads and the more he moves through elite worlds, his feelings of shame and powerlessness only grow stronger, and clear answers recede further away. Weaving together his powerful personal narrative with the books and friendships that move him, Aziz wrestles with the contradiction of feeling like an Other and his desire to belong to a Western world that never quite accepts him. "--,Provided by publisher.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Aziz, O. (2023). Brown boy: a memoir (Center Point Large Print edition.). Center Point Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Aziz, Omer. 2023. Brown Boy: A Memoir. Center Point Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Aziz, Omer. Brown Boy: A Memoir Center Point Large Print, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Aziz, Omer. Brown Boy: A Memoir Center Point Large Print edition., Center Point Large Print, 2023.
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