When Saeed and Nadia finally had coffee together in the cafeteria, which happened the following week, after the very next session of their class, Saaed asked her about her conservative and virtually all-concealing black rode. "If you don't pray," he said, lowering his voice, "why do you wear it?" Th...
“We are all migrants through time.” Having just finished The Reluctant Fundamentalist before reading Exit West (both are due back at the library), I had high expectations for this book. Sadly, I didn't get as much out of this one as I hoped I would. I mean the premise is fascinating, a young cou...
I wonder if I might share some personal thoughts and experiences about SF in order to shed light on the way I read "Exit West"? I must have been about 6 or 7 when I was in big trouble at school for refusing to read the books we were given, and disrupting lessons as a diversion. Janet and John's es...
This is a fantastic novella. It’s a parable of globalization, but its brilliance is in rendering real, three-dimensional characters even from a brief scene or description. Exit West is set in the modern world, beginning in an unnamed Middle Eastern country on the brink of civil war, where two young ...
I was expecting to enjoy this, my first novel by Mohsin Hamid: a short(ish) tale about two lovers escaping a war torn country and desperately finding solace in London. And this one has been hyped up — hyped like almost no other books released this year. I don’t get it. I really don’t. The writing ...
Nov 2017 UC Book Club Read When I opened today’s copy of the New York Times, I was greeted with stories about refugees to Europe and the Rohingya massacre/refugees. This isn’t counting the almost constant debate in the US about DACA and illegal immigrants to the country who are in...
Exit West is an impressively rendered, sensitive and timely novel. It tackles the issue of the refugee crisis in a way that feels remarkably current. There's a freshness to this story that is often lacking in other stories of this style. Given its subject and the ways it's skillfully depicted, I thi...
Thanks to NetGalley and to Penguin for offering me an ARC copy of this book that I freely chose to review. This is another one of the books longlisted for the Man-Booker Prize (now I only have one left of the ones I discovered sitting on my list. I might even finish reading it before the short-list ...
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