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1. www.npr.org › 2020/09/14 › 912667645'Homeland Elegies' Novelist Reflects On Homesickness And The ...

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   Sep 14, 2020 · AKHTAR: What the narrator is relaying, you know, is the story of his relationship with this guy named Riaz Rind, who is a hedge-fund-billionaire wannabe who is trying to move the needle ...

2. www.spokesman.com › stories › 2020Book review: For Ayad Akhtar, success in a land that fails him

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   Sep 7, 2020 · A significant section of the book traces his compromising relationship with a Muslim hedge fund manager who lures Ayad into high society and gives him a lesson in predatory capitalism.

3. www.goodreads.com › en › bookHomeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar - Goodreads

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   Sep 15, 2020 · There are up-close-and-personal views of Akhtar’s dalliance with the prestigious lifestyle as he aligns with a Muslim billionaire hedge fund manager and predatory debt reassignment, college-as-customer-experience rather than higher learning, love and death and syphilis and family bonds.

4. newrepublic.com › article › 160796A Novelist’s Reckoning With Identity Politics | The New Republic

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   Jan 6, 2021 · A fellow Pakistani American, Riaz owns a hedge fund and wants to use his fortune, which is built on peddling other people’s debt, to improve the conversation about Islam in America.

5. www.kirkusreviews.com › news-and-features › articlesAyad Akhtar’s Homeland Insecurity | Kirkus Reviews

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   Sep 14, 2020 · Money is a theme that runs through the novel—first the father’s ruinous foray into real estate investing in the 1980s, and then the narrator’s financial success, enabled by a Muslim hedge fund manager named Riaz Rind.

6. themillions.com › 2020 › 07Ayad Akhtar's Flesh and Blood - The Millions

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   Jul 24, 2020 · “I knew it was going to be about my father’s relationship to money. I knew it was going to be about America as a kind of casino, where me and my dad are marks.” By flirting with autobiography in the novel, Akhtar leaves unclear which of the narrator’s and his family’s disgraces are fictional.

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   Who is Ayad Akhtar?

   • And we're speaking with novelist, playwright and actor Ayad Akhtar. His new novel is "Homeland Elegies." There is some fascinating stuff in here about dreams. And I want to ask you, Ayad Akhtar, if these are your dreams. But then we're going to be back to where we were, as you're not going to tell me. But the... AKHTAR: Maybe we can give it a shot.

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   Did Ayad Akhtar win a Pulitzer Prize for disgraced?

   • Ayad Akhtar won a Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced, his play about a conflicted American Muslim man living in New York after Sept. 11. If you find yourself a little confused by Ayad Akhtar's latest novel, Homeland Elegies, that's by design.

   It's Real, It's Fiction, It's A Paradox: Ayad Akhtar On His ... - NPR

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   Is Akhtar a true story?

   • AKHTAR: Sure. The book begins with a narrative in which, you know, my father in the book is the doctor for Donald Trump in the mid-'90s for a few years and is part of a medical team dealing with certain heart arrhythmia issues.

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   Was Akhtar a narrator?

   • AKHTAR: I was. DAVIES: Right. Well, the narrator, in this case, goes down in Manhattan and - he lives in Manhattan - goes on the street and ends up joining a lot of people to donate blood, and then is accosted in line by some people who recognize him as, you know, other. And he gets a lot of grief.

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   What happened to Akhtar's daughters?

   • AKHTAR: In the book, his daughters go to medical school. He has two daughters. And his sons - one of them dies in the fight, continued fight as a member of the Taliban. And another one dies of a drug overdose. DAVIES: And how did that whole experience impact your family?

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   Did Akhtar have a dream?

   • AKHTAR: Yeah. You know, again, yes, I had that dream. That was a dream that I had. And it was a terrifying dream, and I didn't understand it at the time. It was this, you know, terrible attack on the center of New York. And everybody was running around like insects that had lost a colony, like ants losing a colony - a sort of frenzied activity.

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8. www.npr.org › 2020/09/14 › 911981941It's Real, It's Fiction, It's A Paradox: Ayad Akhtar On His ...

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   Sep 14, 2020 · Ayad Akhtar won a Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced, his play about a conflicted American Muslim man living in New York after Sept. 11. Vincent Tullo/Little, Brown And Company. If you find...