Exit West despite all of the warnings

despite all of the warnings he'd heard

Barnes' depiction of these characters and their relationships (Nora says

supportive smiles

this spellbinding book tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin's most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor

Exit West despite all of the warningsOne of The New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & WINNER OF THE L. A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE "It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future At once terrifying and oddly hopeful." Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review "Moving, audacious, and indelibly human." Entertainment Weekly, "A" rating