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    Ayad Akhtar

    The storyteller on growing up as a Pakistani American in the Midwest and his obsession with finance
    by LUCY FELDMAN Nov 13, 2017 2 minutes
    WHAT’S YOUR MOTIVATION? Akhtar believes every essential question facing American society comes down to the profit motive—an outlook that will lead to our demise.

    AYAD AKHTAR WAS RAISED IN TWO WORLDS. HIS PARENTS, immigrants from the Punjab province of Pakistan, created a home in Milwaukee. As a kid in the Midwest, none of Akhtar’s friends could point to his family’s home country on a map. His grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins visited

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