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Bookin' It in Ballentine
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Join us for an online book group discussion of this month’s title, Exit West, by Moshin Hamid.
Read at your own pace and then join us at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 30 for a lively digital discussion. A link will be sent to the e-mail address associated with your library card one day prior to the event.
Copies of Exit West are available for pick-up at the Ballentine branch pick-up window. To request that a copy be sent to another location for pick-up, please email Michele Maitland at mmaitland@richlandlibrary.com, or call (803) 799-9084.
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"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling 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, if perilously and for a price. As violence and the threat of violence escalate, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. Exit West is an epic compressed into a slender page-turner--both completely of our time and for all time, Mohsin Hamid's most ambitious and electrifying novel yet"-- Provided by publisher.