Muslim-American identity, money and professional ambition repeatedly collide in Ayad Akhtar’s fiction and drama. American Dervish follows a Pakistani-American boy in Wisconsin whose intense attachment to Islam collides with family tensions and a more complicated adult world. Homeland Elegies blurs novel, memoir and political essay through a narrator named Ayad examining his father, immigration, Donald Trump-era America and the financial system. In the play Disgraced, a successful lawyer’s dinner with friends exposes arguments about religion, race and assimilation that become increasingly personal. Akhtar’s writing is direct, argumentative and often uncomfortable, with characters forced to speak positions that do not settle into easy consensus. For marketplace browsing, the closest shelf links are His work Muslim-American fiction, political drama, immigrant literature and contemporary American social commentary. Read more Less
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