Homeland Elegies (Compact Disc)

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Homeland Elegies (Compact Disc)

By Ayad Akhtar (Read by)

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September 2020 Indie Next List

“A masterful blend of memoir and fiction, this is an unforgettable journey through the lives of a Muslim family finding their place in a post-9/11 America. A searing navigation of the loves we try to reconcile — familial, religious, societal — and the definition of home. Written with wisdom, wit, and unsparing honesty, this an important book that you will continue to contemplate for a very long time. Both intimate and epic, this is a must-read.”
— Pam Stirling, East Bay Booksellers, Oakland, CA

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My favorite book of 2020!!  This part fiction/part memoir is a beautiful, funny, troubling and redemptive story of Muslim immigrants and their American-born children.  Akhtar is a Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and his dialogue explodes!

— Kate -- Kids Frontlist Buyer

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and author of American Dervish, an American son and his immigrant father search for belonging -- in post-Trump America, and with each other. A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a nation in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the unhealed wounds of 9/11 continue to wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Davos to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan. All the while sparing no one-least of all himself-in order to make better sense of it all.
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Product Details ISBN: 9781549107207
ISBN-10: 1549107208
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Publication Date: September 15th, 2020
Language: English