21st Century Standouts! That’s the theme for the next series of Evening Book Club picks (October through January).
Join us Dec. 10 at 6:45 p.m. in the Margaret Knoll Gardner Lecture Room for a lively discussion of Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid.
Fiction. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet and embark on a furtive love affair, cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest in their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice.
“Exit West operates on another plane… Beautiful and poetic even at its most devastating.” –Book Riot
Copies can be borrowed on interlibrary loan or purchased from one of Emmaus’ independent bookstores. Also available on Libby as an ebook and audiobook.
*RSVP: Email [email protected], call 610-965-9284, or sign up at the desk.
Coming in January: Heavy: An American Memoir, by Kiese Laymon.
