Ayad Akhtar
Thursday, October 8, 2026 · 7:30 PM PDT · The Great Hall · Seattle, WA
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When a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is pulled toward revelation—and into a scandal that could destroy everything. Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar’s most daring work yet: The Radiance is visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into something stranger and more profound — erotic entanglement, a buried family secret, and an uncanny pull toward the metaphysical. Moving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the cosmic, The Radiance asks not only what has broken, but what radiance remains.
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