Homeland elegies : a novel /

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 stor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Akhtar, Ayad (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.