"Exit West" by Mohsin Hamid
This is our current Brock Bookclub choice and we'll be discussing it Friday. I really liked the style of writing...sort of a magical thinking and it does really connect the reader to the myriad physical and emotional challenges faced by refugees.
I particularly liked this sentence at the end of Chapter 5:
"...and so by making he promise he demanded she make she was in a sense killing him, but that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we left behind."
Looks like it's going to be made into a movie.
In August 2017 it was announced that the Russo brothers had purchased the rights to Exit West with the intention of producing the novel into a movie with Morten Tyldum to direct.[16] In March 2020, Michelle and Barack Obama came on board as producers, with Riz Ahmed playing Saeed and Yann Demange set to direct.[17]
