Homeland Elegies: Ayad Akhtar on OPB’s Think Out Loud

Tune in to OPB Radio for a live interview with Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ayad Akhtar, discussing his novel Homeland Elegies on Think Out Loud, hosted by Dave Miller.

This event will be broadcast live on OPB Radio. Tune in at opb.org or find your local frequency here.

About Homeland Elegies:

A “profound and provocative” new work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: an immigrant father and his son search for belonging — in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews).

“Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable.” —Salman Rushdie

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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