From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, an urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today. El Akkad's writing is informed by his experiences as a journalist in Afghanistan and Egypt's Arab Spring. The author grew up in Egypt, and now lives in the US. His unique perspective gives urgent insight into the moral imperatives of the current moment This is El Akkad's nonfiction debut, his most raw and vulnerable work to date. It's a heartfelt breakup letter with the West, and a brilliant articulation of the same breakup we are watching all over the world, in family rooms, on university campuses, on city streets.