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The Who & the What


A Literary Fiction Novel

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Matters of faith and family, gender and culture are stirred together into a fiery-flavored stew in a new play from the Pulitzer Prize–winning dramatist (New York Times).

Zarina has a bone to pick with the place of women in her Muslim faith, and she's been writing a book about the Prophet Muhammad that aims to set the record straight. When her traditional father and sister discover the manuscript, it threatens to tear her family apart.

With humor and ferocity, Ayad Akhtar's incisive new drama about love, art, and religion examines the chasm between our traditions and our contemporary lives.

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