“But surely it is the gist that matters; I am, after all, telling you a history, and in history, as I suspect you—an American—will agree, it is the thrust of one’s narrative that counts, not the accuracy of one’s details.”

Mohsin Hamid (via claerwen)

I think I’m the only person who read The Reluctant Fundamentalist that didn’t like it.  But maybe I read it at the incorrect time, since this quote is much more meaningful to me now.