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A review by inherbooks
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
3.0
Exit West starts out in an unnamed country, besieged and torn by bombings that threaten its future, its people. We meet Nadia and Saeed – two people drawn to each other by circumstance, by emotion (re: fear, intrigue) – who’s story invites us into a world where refugees are everywhere, flooding the Earth’s West. By walking through a door, individuals looking for an escape are instantly transported to another part of the world - in search of a better life.
Through Nadia and Saeed, we see the world’s response to refugees in the absence of barriers and borders. Is it easier without borders? Is it better? Will we always be looking for an escape? Is Home in our head - not a static, tangible place?
This is an interesting perspective on the always relevant issue of immigration. It left me with more questions than answers and feeling deflated. I want more.
I was *thoroughly* confused during the second half of the book. I just didn’t get it. I got lost in the back and forth between Nadia and Saeed’s story and the random snippets looking into unnamed character’s lives that were scattered throughout. For the beauty this novel had at the beginning (because really and truly, it had me INVESTED), it fell off suddenly and getting to the end felt like a slow crawl. And what made the crawl worse? The run-on sentences. Not just the one or two or five…the whole book *SIGH*.
You’ll either love this novel or…not love it. or both, like me.
Through Nadia and Saeed, we see the world’s response to refugees in the absence of barriers and borders. Is it easier without borders? Is it better? Will we always be looking for an escape? Is Home in our head - not a static, tangible place?
This is an interesting perspective on the always relevant issue of immigration. It left me with more questions than answers and feeling deflated. I want more.
I was *thoroughly* confused during the second half of the book. I just didn’t get it. I got lost in the back and forth between Nadia and Saeed’s story and the random snippets looking into unnamed character’s lives that were scattered throughout. For the beauty this novel had at the beginning (because really and truly, it had me INVESTED), it fell off suddenly and getting to the end felt like a slow crawl. And what made the crawl worse? The run-on sentences. Not just the one or two or five…the whole book *SIGH*.
You’ll either love this novel or…not love it. or both, like me.