Sebastian Khan is 380 days away from the end of college. An art history major with a fondness for the Pre-Raphaelites and a dislike of long-term commitments (romantic and otherwise), Sebastian starts dating Fatima, who’s determined to transition smoothly from campus life to a stable white-collar professional career. Sebastian’s membership in Model United Nations, though, takes him to colleges across North America, foisting upon him all manner of temptations and testing his commitment to Fatima and his readiness for adulthood. Part satire of college life circa 2011 and part serious exploration of art’s fundamental unreality, Portrait of Sebastian Khan is a humorous coming-of-age novel about a charismatic but emotionally stunted Muslim American Don Draper, who wins as many hearts as he breaks. "In Aatif Rashid's witty and dissolute Portrait of Sebastian Khan , a Muslim American college student is conflicted by his love for free-spirited pleasure and the more conventional realities of accomplishment, commitment, and financial success.... Sebastian is a flawed but compelling character, and his romances are detailed with rushes of color and sensation. This sensuality alternates with undertones of humor and even subtle splendor." -- Meg Nola, Foreword Reviews "Sebastian is a delicious protagonist (something I'm sure he would love to hear). Often a jerk, often pretentious or smug, always quick-thinking and very intelligent -- if persuaded of his own beliefs -- it is easy to enjoy judging him. It is also easy to feel for him. His anxiety about leaving the safe bubble of Berkeley rings true to anyone who has ever struggled with liminal spaces in life." --Anna Press, Necessary Fiction Aatif Rashid is the author of the novel Portrait of Sebastian Khan, out March 18, 2019 from 7.13 Books. His short stories have been published in The Massachusetts Review, Metaphorosis, Arcturus, and Barrelhouse and his nonfiction has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, as well as online on Medium. He currently writes regularly for The Kenyon Review blog. Follow him on Twitter at @Aatif_Rashid and at aatifrashid.com.