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No. You wouldn’t have made it past the first page if it were. While I did stick to the adage ‘write what you know’ for the setting of the novel, the occupations of the characters and some of Ali’s emotional baggage (think immigration experience), this remains a work of fiction. People’s lives are seldom that interesting.
