A Harper Perennial OriginalIn a singular and captivating voice, Teddy Wayne marks his literary debut with the chronicle of one young Middle Eastern man’s attempt to live the American Dream in New York City without sacrificing his ideals “An unlikely Cinderella tale, narrated by Karim Issar, an equally unlikely and endearing Cinderella. . . . An innovative and incisive meditation on the wages of corporate greed, the fundamental darkness of its vision lit by the author’s great comic intelligence and wit.”—Kathryn Davis, author of The Thin Place, Hell: A Novel, and Versailles