Ali Eteraz's much-anticipated debut novel is the story of M., a millennial dandy, lapsed believer, aesthete and second-generation immigrant who wants nothing more than to bring children into the world as full-fledged Americans. As M.'s world gradually fragments around him, he spins out into the underbelly of Philadelphia, where he encounters other young men and women grappling with fallout from the War on Terror and vows never again to face the spectre of degradation and humiliation as a second-class citizen. It is darkly comic, provocative and insightful.
