‘Homeland Elegies’: A loving critique of American exceptionalism

Peter Breen | Friday, September 16, 2022

“A day spent reading is not a great day. But a life spent reading is a wonderful life” – Ayad Akhtar. Frustrated with a particular persuasive brand of American exceptionalism, the Notre Dame football cult, I spent the Saturday of the Marshall home opener sifting through Ayad Akhtar’s novel, “Homeland Elegies.” Though a work of