A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF SEPTEMBER - A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK OF FALL "Sly, straight-faced, tenderly wicked. . . . A classic American short story collection."--Michael Chabon "Funny and sincere. . . . connected by history, by ambition, by a myth of a nation that never manifests but is reborn again and again in the immigrant gaze."--New York Times Book Review A sharp, tender, and uproariously funny portrait of the lives of Arab American community members in Dearborn, Michigan.