TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akhtar,Ayad
TI  - Homeland elegies: a novel 
SN  - 0316496421 : HRD :
AV  - PS3601 .K53 H66 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little, Brown and Company
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Immigrant families
KW  - United States
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Muslim families
KW  - Pakistani Americans
KW  - Domestic fiction
N1  - 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
N2  - "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 its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. 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."--
ER  -