DECEMBER BOOK DISCUSSION
Exit West by MOHSIN HAMID
Hosted by CarolineWinner of the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for
Fiction and the Aspen Words Literary Prize • Finalist for the Dayton
Literary Peace Prize • Ten Best Books of 2017, New York Times Book
Review
A New York Times bestseller, the astonishingly visionary love story
that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes
into the uncertain embrace of new lands.
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people
meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained
Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered
in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it
explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and
bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can
whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence
escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice.
Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door
and step through. . . .
Exit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an
alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to
their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and
powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love,
loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all
time.
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