NPR News: It's Real, It's Fiction, It's A Paradox: Ayad Akhtar On His 'Homeland Elegies'

It's Real, It's Fiction, It's A Paradox: Ayad Akhtar On His 'Homeland Elegies'
The narrator's name in the novel is also Ayad Akhtar, and the book reads like memoir. Akhtar says he had to "pilfer" from his own life to write a novel that had the "addictive thrill" of reality TV.

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