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Sofia Ali-Khan is a powerful anti-racist storyteller and a public interest lawyer. Her book, A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America was published by Random House in 2022 and won the 2023 Nautilus Gold Book Award for Social Justice. Writing at the intersection of politics, race, history, and Muslim ...
Feb 17, 2023 · The Pakistani American human rights lawyer Sofia Ali-Khan first surfaced as an important national voice through a viral Facebook post she wrote in 2015. It was becoming clear that Donald Trump’s ...
Jul 5, 2022 · Sofia Ali-Khan’s A Good Country is not only a searing indictment on America’s still unreconciled foundations as a settler-colonial state, but an extremely effective one as well. Using just the twelve specific locations that she personally lived in across the United States, the author is able to very easily tie each and every one into a unique historical case of either systematic ...
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Jul 5, 2022 · “At a time when many would rather ban or bury the truth, Ali-Khan bravely faces it in this bracing and necessary book.” -Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Homeland Elegies. Sofia Ali-Khan’s parents emigrated from Pakistan to America, believing it would be a good country. With a nerdy interest in American folk history and a ...
Jul 5, 2022 · In her first book, the attorney and activist describes the long, incremental process of disenchantment with the misleading American promise of freedom and equality for all...As part of one of the few Muslim families in her neighborhood and schools growing up, Ali-Khan felt keenly the sense of being 'other'...Later in life, she learned that Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where her hometowns of ...
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Jul 5, 2022 · Sofia Ali-Khan Sofia Ali-Khan is a Muslim American activist, public interest attorney and the author of A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America (out from Random House on July 5, 2022). She now lives in Ontario, Canada with her family.
Sofia Ali-Khan has woven the search for her identity and home with an exploration of racism and economic exploitation at the center of the American myth. This book should be in the curriculum for every high school senior.” —Suzanne Pharr, co-founder of Southerners on New Ground (SONG) and author of Transformation: Toward a People’s Democracy
