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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2020

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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 post-Trump America. 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.

“Pitch perfect…virtuosic.”
— The New York Times

“Tour de force…a phenomenal coalescence of memoir, fiction, history and cultural analysis.”
— Ron Charles, The Washington Post

“A crescendo of grievance reminiscent of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl...[Akhtar] denounces the nation’s recent sins and failures…rails against the country’s cult of greed, its prostitution of private life for public attention, its allegiance to devices...to give his own account of the riven nation.” 
–Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker

“The best book of the year.”
— Junot Diaz, O Magazine

“Akhtar reckons with the promises and deceptions of the American dream in this wrenching work…this tragicomedy is a revelation.”
— Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“Profound and provocative.”
— Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)