An Evening with Ayad Akhtar
November 5 @ 7:00 pm
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar presents his new novel, “The Radiance.”
The novel follows a writer whose life changes after a hit-and-run accident. As he recovers, his involvement with a campus colleague draws him into a scandal, while a family secret and questions surrounding the accident emerge. Moving between rural America and Europe, the story explores spiritual transformation, religion, academic conflicts, and the narrator’s uncertainty about his own experiences.
Akhtar won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for “Disgraced.” His novels include “American Dervish” and “Homeland Elegies,” which The New York Times named one of its 10 Best Books of 2020. His plays also include “McNeal,” “Junk,” “The Who & The What,” and “The Invisible Hand.”