American identity is often complex, and sometimes, hyphenated. On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review Chinese-American author Susie Yang's White Ivy and Pakistani-American playwright Ayad Akhtar's Homeland Elegies.
White Ivy, Susie Yang, Simon and Schuster
Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar, Little Brown
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