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.
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
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
Ebook ISBN 9781524732202
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