Exit West

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Exit West
240 pages; Riverhead Books
In deft strokes, Mohsin Hamid's Exit West tracks a young couple as they escape their war-blasted, unnamed city through a series of doors that magically transport refugees to safety. Lyrical and urgent, the globalist novel evokes the dreams and disillusionments that follow Saeed and Nadia as they cast their fates with the dispossessed and peels away the dross of bigotry to expose the beauty of our common humanity.
— Hamilton Cain