EPISODE · Jan 26, 2012 · 33 MIN
American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
from The Avid Reader Show · host Samuel Hankin
What a pleasure to encounter a first novel as self-assured and effortlessly told as Ayad Akhtar’s “American Dervish.” Mr. Akhtar, a first-generation Pakistani-American, has written an immensely entertaining coming-of-age story set during the early 1980s among the Pakistanis in the author’s hometown, Milwaukee.
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