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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Ayad Akhtar

Season 2020 Episode 3082 | 17m 58s

What it means to be American, both in body and in soul, has been on Ayad Akhtar’s mind for years. His new book "Homeland Elegies" – partly a memoir, partly a novel--looks at the immigration experience through a son’s relationship with a father who supports Donald Trump. Akhtar discusses this fraught family situation with Hari Sreenivasan.

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