This "beautiful novel . . . has echoes of The Great Gatsby": an immigrant father and his son search for belonging-in post-Trump America, and with each other (Dwight Garner, New York Times).One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020A Best Book of 2020 * Entertainment Weekly * Washington Post * O Magazine * New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly * NPR * The Economist * Shelf Awareness * Library Journal * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * SlateFinalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionA 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.Pulitzer Prize-winning author 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."Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." -Salman RushdieReview"Tour de force . . . a poetic confession of the agony of trying to articulate a nuanced critique of faith and politics in an age of shrieking partisanship."―Ron Charles, Washington Post"An immigrant saga unlike any other . . . singular in its richness, inventiveness, and braininess and the fiery candor with which Akhtar chars nearly every sentence. . . . For me, this is the book of the year."―Junot Diaz, O Magazine"A beautiful novel about an American son and his immigrant father that has echoes of The Great Gatsby and that circles, with pointed intellect, the possibilities and limitations of American life.... Homeland Elegies is a very American novel. It’s a lover’s quarrel with this country, and . . . it has candor and seriousness to burn."―Dwight Garner, New York Times"Dazzling . . . a deeply personal examination of the American dream."―Entertainment Weekly"[A] moving and confrontational novel . . . Homeland Elegies deals in ambiguities that were beyond the pale of public discourse in the years after 9/11. . . . He has an unerring sense for the sore spots, the bitter truths that have emerged from this history."―Hari Kunzru, New York Times Book Review"Masterful.... A symphony about America.... [Akhtar's] intellectual explorations of identity and self-presentation are coupled with deep emotional urgency.... With its insight and honesty, Homeland Elegies deserves to be read widely."―USA Today"Incisive and masterful."―Rafia Zakaria, Boston Globe"Gripping ... [a] fine and deeply moving piece of writing."―Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune"Akhtar deftly weaves politics, family, friendship, capitalism, work and the eternal existential crisis of being American into a tapestry of form that includes essay, lyric passages and dialogue in its pattern (which, like America, is somewhat chaotic). . . . 'Ever the artist,' Akhtar writes, 'I trusted the mess.' And thank goodness he did."―Sarah Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle"Scintillating ... Akhtar is an intrepid narrator."―Anjali Enjeti, Minneapolis Star-Tribune"Outstanding.... [A] courageous and timely novel, deftly interweaving fact and fiction, memoir and history.... It’s hard to convey the breadth and brilliance of this work."―The Guardian"Monumental . . . a globe-trotting tragicomedy."―Elle.com"A family drama that spans the globe and asks big, unsettling questions about identity, patriotism, and the quest to belong."―Town & Country"This tragicom

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