Homeland Elegies: A Novel Audiobook

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and author of American Dervish, an American son and his immigrant father search for belonging -- in post-Trump America, and with each other.

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 nation in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the unhealed wounds of 9/11 continue to 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 Davos to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan. All the while sparing no one-least of all himself-in order to make better sense of it all.

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"Akhtar knows his craft, his prose his crisp and always intentional. A joyful reading with some very illuminating reflections about family, growing old, and above all, about America. Many have tried to make sense of the divisiness and strife in current America, but Akhtar brings some very powerful, persuasive reflections about the underlying currents that have shaped the United States and Islam over the last few centuries, up to Trump's turmoil. "

— Manuel Vicente (5 out of 5 stars)