Homeland elegies : a novel /
Akhtar, Ayad.,
Homeland elegies : a novel / Ayad Akhtar - First edition - xx, 345 pages ; 25 cm
Overture: To America -- A chronology of the events -- Family politics. On the anniversary of Trump's first year in office ; On autobiography; or, Bin Laden ; In the names of the prophet ... -- Scranton memoirs. God's country ; Riaz; or, The Merchant of Debt -- Pox Americana. Of love and death ; On Pottersville ; Langford v. Reliant; or, How my father's American story ends -- Free speech: A coda
"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 country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds 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 guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one--least of all himself--in the process."--
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Pakistani Americans--Fiction
Muslim families--United States--Fiction
Immigrants--United States--Fiction
Immigrant families--United States--Fiction
Fathers and sons--Fiction
Domestic fiction
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
PS3601.K53 / H66 2020
813/.6
Homeland elegies : a novel / Ayad Akhtar - First edition - xx, 345 pages ; 25 cm
Overture: To America -- A chronology of the events -- Family politics. On the anniversary of Trump's first year in office ; On autobiography; or, Bin Laden ; In the names of the prophet ... -- Scranton memoirs. God's country ; Riaz; or, The Merchant of Debt -- Pox Americana. Of love and death ; On Pottersville ; Langford v. Reliant; or, How my father's American story ends -- Free speech: A coda
"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 country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds 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 guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one--least of all himself--in the process."--
9780316496421 0316496421
Little Brown & Co, 53 State st 9th Fl, Boston, MA, USA, 02109, (617)2270730 SAN 200-2205
2020930304
Pakistani Americans--Fiction
Muslim families--United States--Fiction
Immigrants--United States--Fiction
Immigrant families--United States--Fiction
Fathers and sons--Fiction
Domestic fiction
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
PS3601.K53 / H66 2020
813/.6