'Dervish' unfortunately is too much like its title

That's the third sentence in "American Dervish," and it aptly captures what's right and also wrong with this debut novel by Brookfield native Ayad Akhtar .

[Marie-Luise]

>But like many plot-driven Hollywood films, "Dervish" simultaneously sacrifices depth, turning its characters into cartoons who flit from crisis to crisis, without ever developing an inner life.<

Not worth seeing it evidently.