Book Review – Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar

Book Review – Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar

by | Nov 20, 2020 | Books

In Ayad Akhtar’s 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Disgraced, his principle character, Amir, a Pakistani-American lawyer, admits feeling a “blush of pride” at 9/11. Akhtar was exploring the crisis of identity felt by many Muslim-Americans in the wake of the terror...