5/22/2023 0 Comments Sparks Off You by Anita FelicelliHowever, unlike Rez, Arash is one self, and it’s an appealing self. In this other life, he meets a charismatic young Syrian American man, Arash, and is introduced to Muslim teenagers more like him - smart, accomplished code switchers. If you go with them, try to be as they are, I will not be able to help you in that life.”Ī surf trip to Mexico goes awry, and when his buddies blame Rez, they push him out of their world and back into the life his father wants for him. He tells Rez, “Those boys, the ones you think are your friends, will always think of you as an outsider, as an immigrant, the foreign kid. Sal is not unstable like his own father, but he’s harsher than the white fathers of Rez’s friends. He’s an Iranian American teenager caught between multiple selves and two worlds, one being the world of white Laguna Beach teenage surfers and the other the world of his father, who worked his way up to become a head scientist for Merck Labs. One of them, Rez Courdee, is Sal Courdee’s son. “A Good Country” starts in the fall of 2011 with a scene straight out of ordinary American adolescent experience - kids smoking marijuana.
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