Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Ayad Akhtar wants you to know:Homeland Elegiesis a novel.
Even though the book breaks narrative format for essayistic asides.
Even though the book races at the speed of bare-your-soul memoir.
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A deeply personal work, the novel probes vital questions about American identity today.
Akhtars forceful, direct prose conveys a poetic sense of anguish.
So maybe this is more than a novel.
Its a document furious, unwieldy, tragic of our time.
David Canfield
Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami
What are you?
Muslim or human being?
Its impossible to be both at the same time.
Leah Greenblatt
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