Bibliograph

Homeland elegies, a novel, Ayad Akhtar

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Homeland elegies, a novel, Ayad Akhtar

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Homeland elegies

Oclc number

1200307398

Responsibility statement

Ayad Akhtar

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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 it's heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home

Table Of Contents

Overture: To America -- A chronology of the events -- Family politics. On the anniversary of Trump's first year in office -- On autobiography; or, Bin Laden -- In the names of the prophet ... -- Scranton memoirs. God's country -- Riaz; or, The Merchant of Debt -- Pox Americana. Of love and death -- On Pottersville -- Langford v. Reliant; or, How my father's American story ends -- Free speech: A coda

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