Exploring Homeland Elegies: A Novel Worth Delving Into

This "stunning novel . . . has echoes of The Nice Gatsby ": an immigrant father and his son seek for belonging — in post-Trump America, and with one another (Dwight Garner,  New York Instances) .
One of many  New York Instances  10 Greatest Books of the Yr 
Considered one of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of 2020
A Greatest Ebook of 2020 * Leisure Weekly * Washington Put up * O Journal * New York Instances Ebook Assessment * Publishers Weekly * NPR * The Economist * Shelf Consciousness * Library Journal * St. Louis Put up-Dispatch * Slate
Finalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
A deeply private work about identification and belonging in a nation coming aside on the seams, Homeland Elegies blends reality and fiction to inform an epic story of longing and dispossession on this planet that 9/11 made. Half household drama, half social essay, half picaresque novel, at its coronary heart it’s the story of a father, a son, and the nation they each name dwelling.
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ayad Akhtar forges a brand new narrative voice to seize a rustic wherein debt has ruined numerous lives and the gods of finance rule, the place immigrants stay in concern, and the place the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc all over the world. Akhtar makes an attempt to make sense of all of it by means of the lens of a narrative about one household, from a heartland city in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts within the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares nobody—least of all himself—within the course of.
"Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." —Salman Rushdie