Kapitoil / Teddy Wayne / 295 pages

This was a most unusual, interesting book.  A young Muslim has come to the U.S. to work on the Y2K problem.  He works in the World Trade Center and develops a program called Kapitoil that predicts changes in oil prices based on the occurrence of trigger words in the press.  His success enables him to experience America as the wealthy see it.  His attempts to assimilate into American culture were a disappointment to me.  I had hoped that his Muslim faith would cause him to withstand temptations and remain moral.  He does suffer guilt after the fact.  His struggles to gain mastery of the American idiom and interpersonal relationships are at once humorous, endearing, and heartbreaking.