{"product_id":"homeland-elegies-9780316496414","title":"Homeland Elegies","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis \"beautiful novel . . . has echoes of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e: an immigrant father and his son search for belonging\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003ein post-Trump America, and with each other (Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times)\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e10 Best Books of the Year  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Best Book of 2020 * Entertainment Weekly * Washington Post * O Magazine * New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly * NPR * The Economist * Shelf Awareness * Library Journal * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Slate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, \u003ci\u003eHomeland Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning author 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable.\" --Salman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316496414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368","brand":"Ayad Akhtar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39894497099957,"sku":"9780316496414","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_cfb1eb40-8516-468d-be6d-c96afbdcb57d.jpg?v=1619543550","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/homeland-elegies-9780316496414","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}