American Dervish Author:Ayad Akhtar, Ayad Akhtar Reading American Dervish is like wandering through an old city where each winding street leads to another you never guessed existed. Just when you think you've reached the end of town, you discover yet more twists and turns. Ayad Akhtar constructs an emothonal maze layered with questions of faith, love, idenity, individual choice, and collecti... more »ve loyalty. All written in the simple words of a ten-year-old