…Exit West is a critique of the callous and naïve manner with which many modern Western nations treat migrants and refugees who come to their countries. But that’s diminutive. Exit West is much more than a critique of xenophobia. It’s an important novel, and it’s important because it de-legitimizes bigotry by way of underlining the quiet similarities we all, as humans, share. Said another way: Exit West’s brilliance lies in its universality. From even the very first sentence, Hamid conveys the ubiquity of this story…
Mohsin Hamid’s, Exit West
Published by Andres Vaamonde
Andrés Vaamonde is a writer and editor born and raised in New York, New York. He was awarded the Foyle International Young Poet of the Year Award in 2012, a silver medal at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in 2014, and, most importantly, several dozen youth sports participation trophies. His journalism and fiction appears in Fortune Magazine, OZY Media, Quckoo Quarterly, Black Fox Literary Magazine, and Yahoo. He has taught in a maximum security prison, served as a firefighter at the Cayuga Heights Fire Department, and worked construction in Spain. Currently, he co-leads writing workshops for teens at the Writopia Lab, is an assistant editor at Adolphus Press, and an editorial assistant at Soho Press. He graduated this past May from Cornell University, where he first began working on his as-of-yet unpublished first novel. View all posts by Andres Vaamonde
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