THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2018 by Abdi Nor Iftin and Max Alexander

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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In Chapters 15 and 16 some names of individuals have been changed to protect their privacy.

Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Names: Iftin, Abdi Nor, author. | Alexander, Max, 1957– Author.

Title: Call me American : a memoir / by Abdi Nor Iftin with Max Alexander.

Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. | “This is a Borzoi Book.”

Identifiers: LCCN 2017043213 | ISBN 9781524732196 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781524732202 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Iftin, Abdi Nor. | Somali Americans—Maine—Biography. | Immigrants—Maine—Biography. | Muslims—Maine—Biography.

Classification: LCC CT275.I43 A3 2018 | DDC 305.893/540741—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2017043213

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