Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar’s latest novel, “Homeland Elegies,” is a meditation on American identity through the lens of an American son and his immigrant parents. It is also a treatise on American economics, Muslim identity in this country, the power of dreams, and syphilis. Ayad Akhtar joins us as part of the Portland Book Festival put on by Literary Arts.
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