Ayad Akhtar Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/ayad-akhtar/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Mon, 21 Dec 2020 14:20:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Ayad Akhtar Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/ayad-akhtar/ 32 32 38398750 2020 Underrated Gems https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/2020-underrated-gems/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/2020-underrated-gems/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2020 05:27:57 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15153 Well, it’s that time of year again…the extravaganza of lists about everything BEST in the world. I’ll be joining the fray, but my two lists (debuts and overall best) won’t be going up until after Christmas. For today, I wanted to give some love to four very different books I thought were gems, but that […]

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