Homeland Elegies

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Akhtar, Ayad, Fiction / Akhtar, Ayad
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Akhtar, Ayad	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Akhtar, Ayad	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Akhtar, Ayad	4-week checkout	Due 05-16-2024
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Akhtar, Ayad	4-week checkout	Due 05-20-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Akhtar, Ayad	4-week checkout	Due 05-13-2024

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.

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Struggled to love submitted by flemingj on July 5, 2021, 8:48am This book was hard to pin down for me. It really is an enlightening combination of many pieces that are truly striking to read.

A painful slog submitted by sns101 on June 15, 2022, 8:01pm Some of the essays were interesting, and I appreciated how Akhtar depicted the multiplicity and complexity of Muslim American identities post 9/11. But there was also a lot of navel gazing, which made this book difficult to slog through. (The roads in Akhtar’s essays all lead to a painfully awkward personal encounter, in unnecessarily intimate detail). I recommend reading essays individually, with breaks, if you choose to tackle this book.