Review: Ayad Akhtar’s `fever dream’ of a fallen America In 2013, Ayad Akhtar won a Pulitzer Prize for his hit Broadway play “Disgraced,” about a dinner party that goes off track as two couples confront their racial and ethnic prejudices“Homeland Elegies,” by Ayad Akhtar (Little, Brown and Company)An elegy is a mournful poem expressing regret for something lost. Ayad Akhtar’s brilliant new novel, “Homeland Elegies,” mourns an America that has lost its way in the half century since it welcomed his parents’ generation of Muslim immigrants from Pakistan. At various points of the book, you may be tempted to go online to see if they’re really true. All have their own complex views about being Muslim in America. The result is a searingly honest, brutally funny, sometimes painful-to-read account of being a Muslim in America before and after 9/11.

Source: ABC News September 14, 2020 14:17 UTC