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Jan 24, 2012
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Hayat is in the stage of his life where he is just beginning to understand adult relationships. In many ways, he was still a child. He doesn't understand that sometimes trying to get what we want and trying to help other people (if done in the wrong way) can have ill-effects for those that we are trying to help. Sometimes the bad outweighs the good. I think that a lot of times, it takes us a really long time to understand that and to really understand all of the implications that go along with t
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Grateful to have found Ayad Akhtar, now I want to read everything he's written. This one is an elegantly written, smoothly unfolding coming-of-age story. It's packed with invaluble social commentary and insight, but it's all natural and implicit, simply told through the eyes of the vivid and thoroughly relatable characters. I do wish the book-end narrative had gotten more attention -- maybe a sequel?
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