The core asset of Ayad Akhtar's "Homeland Elegies," his latest deeply moving autobiographical novel, is the complexity of its thinking, its innate understanding that seeing the absurdity of worshipping American exceptionalism in this most incurious of nations does not mean you cannot also see the similar peril of subsuming one's mind to a theocracy outside its borders.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 07:00AM on September 11, 2020