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May 27, 2021
Today's Featured Title and Contest
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Friday, May 28th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of HOMELAND ELEGIES by Ayad Akhtar, which is now available in paperback. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
Today's Featured Book and Contest:
HOMELAND ELEGIES by Ayad Akhtar
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.
Pulitzer 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.
- Click here to read our review.
- Click here to read an excerpt.
- Click here for the discussion guide.
- Click here to visit Ayad Akhtar's website.
- Connect with Ayad Akhtar on Facebook and Twitter.
Click here to enter the contest
by noon ET on Friday, May 28th.
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