Akhtar's autofiction blurs memoir and novel to follow a Pulitzer-winning playwright named "Ayad Akhtar" and his cardiologist father through "the world that 9/11 made."
It links anti-Muslim racism to debt, capital and empire, and captures the "forever suspect" experience even among the economic elite.
Content note: sexual content, strong language, a father's political extremism.
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