www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/22/obama-the-prequel-2
"The scene is New York City in the early eighties. The dramatis personae are Barack Obama and Salim Maqbool, a fictionalized version of Sohale Siddiqi, the illegal Pakistani immigrant with whom Obama lived—scrounging for rent, fending off bums—for almost a year in a sixth-floor walkup at 339 East Ninety-fourth Street"