“I got Sonic Youth tickets free for the 4th of July. But we decided not to go, so I listed them on Craigslist for barter. I got this book for them.
It is about a Pakistani man who goes to Princeton and gets a job in corporate Manhattan. He is away on buisness in Manila when September 11th occurs. He has an interesting reaction.
The story is told in 1st-person, at a coffee shop, a few months or years later, in Pakistan. He is talking with an American who never speaks. ”