RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksMasterful ... Starts off placidly ... In its own quiet way, Commitment is a page-turner and an emotional roller-coaster ride—all the more so if you’ve ever dealt with mentally unsound or addicted people in your immediate family.
Ayad Akhtar
RaveThe Los Angeles Review of BooksIf you\'ve already read Camus’s The Plague and have been searching for the perfect pre-apocalyptic fiction work to help you navigate our current affairs, this book may be just the provocation ... masterful storytelling for these disturbing times ... One does world literature a disservice here to assert that Homeland Elegies is among the first masterpieces of the Trumpian era, because if anyone is literature’s antihero it would be Donald J. Trump. Yet without the presence of such an ignominious central character, the reader’s experience would be nowhere near as excruciating, nor as enjoyable ... roves a compelling read from first page to last, not only for the seduction of peering into Ayad Akhtar’s private life, with its elegant articulations and obvious love of the English language, but because he is not afraid to lob incendiary bombs at the reader to threaten our sacred cows.
