As a Muslim child in the American Midwest, Ayad Akhtar says he felt "invisible" a member of a minority that "nobody really understood." Even now, "people still don't have any sense of what it feels like to be Muslim." Akhtar's debut novel, American Dervish , should set that straight. A riveting and disturbing tale of a Muslim boy grappling with the mysteries of love and religion, it is now being published in 20 languages, and the global rights have fetched some $750,000. At 41, Akhtar who previously co-wrote and starred in The War Within , a 2005 film about...
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