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A review by ebonwilde
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
3.0
⋆⋆⋆½
i will always like fantasy more than litfic, so the monsters, inc. bit didn't bother me. the real problem with this book is that every sentence is an entire page long, and it's suffocating.
and nadia's thing with the burqa is?? not sure if i missed it, but i really don't understand her choosing to wear it in a viciously anti arab/muslim london "because of the signal it sends" (it's not a positive signal there, bff), when she's literally. not. a. muslim??? it's explicitly stated she shuns her former religion, her language, and the people of her country, so i don't get her choosing to keep that thing in her life, of all things. maybe it's because she's similar to me in most aspects, and i was living vicariously through her nonrelationship with islam and her cutting off her family and finding independence, so i'm annoyed she didn't go all the way, but anyway.
i will always like fantasy more than litfic, so the monsters, inc. bit didn't bother me. the real problem with this book is that every sentence is an entire page long, and it's suffocating.
and nadia's thing with the burqa is?? not sure if i missed it, but i really don't understand her choosing to wear it in a viciously anti arab/muslim london "because of the signal it sends" (it's not a positive signal there, bff), when she's literally. not. a. muslim??? it's explicitly stated she shuns her former religion, her language, and the people of her country, so i don't get her choosing to keep that thing in her life, of all things. maybe it's because she's similar to me in most aspects, and i was living vicariously through her nonrelationship with islam and her cutting off her family and finding independence, so i'm annoyed she didn't go all the way, but anyway.