Summit Books 
Ayad Akhtar does not shy from lightning rod subjects.
As a writer, he repeatedly sticks his neck out in provocative, gripping theatrical plays, including Disgraced, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and novels, including his second, Homeland Elegies, widely hailed as a best book of 2020. His work exposes the fissures of American racial, political and economic identity, and picks at the fraying seams of a country he regards as stressed by a degradation of democracy and capitalist rapaciousness
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