COMING FOR AMERICA
The Dilemma
I came for my dreams in the ultimate paradise on earth. What I got was a cultural and jaw-dropping rollercoaster with no seatbelt.
BOOK SUMMARY
Fresh off the plane from a Kenyan village, Mush dives headfirst into American college life—armed with big dreams, a used tuxedo, tap dance shoes, and Michael Jackson dance moves. But from his disastrous nightclub debut to a doomed romance with a fiery “liberated” woman, every attempt to belong ends in chaos. A beer to the face, a run-in with a gun-wielding transvestite, a strip club expulsion, a disastrous dinner date, and misunderstood bromance in a gay club, all push him further from his dreams and closer to the edge. Broke, heartbroken, and buried in backbreaking dishwashing shifts, Mush begins to question everything—his choices, his values, even his identity. As Michigan winter bears down and illusions melt away, he must decide: will he keep performing for a dream that doesn’t see him, or finally claim his own?
Coming for America: Dilemma is a wildly funny, brutally honest, and deeply cinematic memoir of missteps, heartbreaks, and one man’s fight to find belonging without losing himself.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SYNOPSIS
FIRST TWO CHAPTERS
MIDMOST CHAPTER
LAST CHAPTER