It has been bubbling beneath the literary surface for a few years now – Aliya Husain's Neither This Nor That, for example, or Khaled Hosseini's international bestseller, The Kite Runner – but as a sub-genre, it's at a formative stage, a mere infant compared to the canon of works by Jewish, Hispanic and African-American authors that have for decades defined the experience of ethnic and cultural outsiders within the modern US.
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Ayad Akhtar: American Dervish (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
We'll be hearing more about the Muslim-American novel in the years to come.
