Blackstone Audio 9781470862091 A Good Country - A Novel Audio Book

A timely novel about the radicalization of a muslim teen in california about where identity truly lies, and how we find it laguna beach, california, 2010. Reza courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-a student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, reza now rez feels like an american teen. Life is smooth, even lying to his strict parents comes easily.

But then he changes again, falling out with the bad boy surfers and in with a group of kids more awake to the world around them, who share his background, and whose ideas fill him with a very different sense of purpose. Within a year, reza and his girlfriend are making their way to syria to be part of a muslim nation rising from the ashes of the civil war.

Timely, nuanced, and emotionally forceful, a good country is a gorgeous meditation on modern life, religious radicalization, and a young man caught among vastly different worlds. What we are left with at the dramatic end is not an assessment of good or evil, east versus west, but a lingering question that applies to all modern souls.

• A good country - a novel audiobook

• Format: Digital Download, Digital Rental, CD, MP3 CD
• Category: Fiction/Literary
• Author: Laleh Khadivi
• Run Time: 8.92
• Track: 42
• Edition: English