A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
One of Barack Obamaa�TMs Favorite Books of 2020
An Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Finalist
On over 10 Best Book Lists
Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell a story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. In a book that is part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, 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 nationa�TMs 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 in the process.