A book Review - Home Boy

This post is a book review for the book called “Home Boy” by H.M.Naqwi. This book talks about upturns in the lifes of Pakistani youngsters post 9/11 attack.

This is definitely an attractive, wise, humorous and sad manual, knowledgeable from your viewpoint of the Pakistani immigrant in New York Metropolis. The guide follows three youthful (mid twenties) Pakistani friends, Chuck, AC and Jimbo, who embraced Metropolis for everything they could even though indulging within the joys of girlfriends, in addition to just a small medicines and not-so-little alcohol.

Naqvi is very great with phrases. Unfortunately the story is cliched, some thing we have heard over and more than again of Pakistani expats discovering a different and unwelcoming NY post 9/11. I such as the way Naqvi weaves words collectively to come up with stunning descriptions however the story fails to have any impact on me.

A lyrical work of attractiveness and emotion. Naqvi takes us on a joyride via pre and publish 9-11 Manhattan, that turns all of the sudden darkish and political in the direction of the finish. The main character, a free-wheeling, hard partying, coke-snorting Pakistani immigrant who functions in banking and in taxi driving, experiences Manhattan inside a visceral and compelling way. Together along with his two fellow Pakistani buddies, they are immersed within a distinctive subculture of young, rich or residing wealthy youthful individuals of a melange of backgrounds. Getting some publicity to Naqvi's very early writing, I miss a few of his wildest, most lyrical poetic expressions, but even so, every couple of pages is really a marvelously deft utilization of phrases. Sometimes, he reaches also far, and he also writes excessively about meals, a difficult trick to pull off well. What succeeds correct right here, unexpectedly, will probably be the characters themselves. Well really worth a read by anyone, particularly those interested in immigrant life in 21st century NY, as well as the way in which the immigrant spherical up within the post 9-11 hysteria impacted Muslims, even the most secularized

The story is informed via the eyes of Chuck, a student on a function visa who turned banker, turned cabbie.
The three friends' planet turned upside-down subsequent the events of 9/11/2001 when the metropolis they thought embraced them, turned hostile. At the moment (about one hundred pages in to the novel) the manual becomes very energetic and fast paced because it turns from a story full of self absorption hedonism into a story regarding the coming of age in an unfriendly planet.

This truly is one of these publications that are disturbing and delightful concurrently, a view stage across the events of 9/11 from your viewpoint of the young guy who has been accused of being somebody he's not merely from your nationwide paranoia that gripped the nation.

The attractiveness of literature is that is among the couple of cultural artifacts that offers with complex emotions like Anomie. Naqvi's novel offers with a youthful Pakistani living in New York before, during and after 9/11. While the city (and America) holds high ideals for his main character - roadblocks seem which make his existence challenging.