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The Book Show #1683 - Ayad Akhtar

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published October 20, 2020 at 3:00 PM EDT
Book cover title artwork for "Homeland Elegies"
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Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His latest work is novel, "Homeland Elegies," a deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams. It blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in a world that 9/11 made.
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