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Homeland Elegies

by Ayad Akhtar
Homeland Elegies - Thryft
Homeland Elegies - Thryft

Identity search in post-9/11 America.

Homeland Elegies is a must-read for those seeking a thought-provoking and personal story on immigration and the struggles of identity in a post-9/11 America. Author Ayad Akhtar blends fact and fiction to tell the story of a Muslim immigrant father and his son in a nation coming apart at the seams. The book explores the ideals of American identity, the impacts of debt and finance, and the unhealed wounds of 9/11 on a personal and national level.

  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2021)
  • Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award (2021)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Homeland Elegies

by Ayad Akhtar
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ISBN: 9780316496421
Authors: Ayad Akhtar
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date of Publication: 2020-09-15
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Race
Goodreads rating: 4.14
(rated by 23076 readers)

Description

A deeply personal work about hope and identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of belonging and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque adventure -- at its heart, it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and our ideals have been sacrificed to the gods of finance, where a TV personality is president and immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds of 9/11 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 Central Europe to guerilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one -- least of all himself -- in the process.
 

Identity search in post-9/11 America.

Homeland Elegies is a must-read for those seeking a thought-provoking and personal story on immigration and the struggles of identity in a post-9/11 America. Author Ayad Akhtar blends fact and fiction to tell the story of a Muslim immigrant father and his son in a nation coming apart at the seams. The book explores the ideals of American identity, the impacts of debt and finance, and the unhealed wounds of 9/11 on a personal and national level.

  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2021)
  • Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award (2021)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.