Anyone who has seen both “Disgraced” and “Junk” will be prepared for the content of Ayad Akhtar’s new novel, “Homeland Elegies.” But even those hard-punching, argumentative dramas don’t completely prepare a reader for the high-bandwidth ferocity of Akhtar’s book about the unease of being a brown Muslim in the United States and about the destabilizing effect of unfettered greed on this country. “I wrote [...]
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