The notion of the ‘homeland' is one of the building blocks of diaspora studies. The pioneers of the field emphasized the idealization/mythologizing of the ancestral homeland by the diaspora members. This paper contends that Khaled Hosseini, the Afghan American writer challenges the argument foregrounded by the diaspora scholars that home is always idealized/mythologized by the diaspora. In his latest novel And the Mountains Echoed Hosseini adopts a critical attitude towards his homeland country Afghanistan which results in producing an anti-mythic portrayal of the homeland rather than one that is “mythic