Exit West: A Novel

"Critics have rightly heaped praise on this slender treasure of a novel. It’s a tale of war and refugees and how we carry ourselves in the places we call home. It is also, powerfully, a love story. I read with a pen in hand, even when I read for pleasure, and my copy of Exit West is riddled with notes; more than once, I paused to scribble “lovely” next to passages such as this: “Saeed noticed that Nadia had a beauty mark on her neck, a tawny oval that sometimes, rarely but not never, moved with her pulse.”"