Port Authority Throw Down

While driving home yesterday, he discovered Bureau agents ransacking his house

Pervez just kept on driving - he knew they were looking for his brother, Nawaz

For the past twenty-four hours, he has been hiding out in his cab outside Port Authority

There, he will meet a Christian missionary and a homeless man, both searching for a connection from a world in which they feel alienated

"New York cab rides often make strange political bedfellows ..." The angry dark-skinned taxi driver is a Pakistani man [Pervez] sick and tired of being mistaken for an Arab. The meek fair-skinned passenger is a woman from Akron, Ohio, working as a Christian missionary in the city

"He announces that he has a bomb, then says he was just joking, 'letting out some aggression.' She suggests that people like him take their aggression and misguided views 'back to their kingdom.' Then he asks her out, and she gives him a portable Bible ... " ~ NY Times

"Batistick has the valuable ability to articulate the concerns of the working poor through witty, bitter, nihilistic banter. His Pervez is completely believable and utterly likable, especially when paired with the hilariously parochial Barb" ~ BackStage