Zell Visiting Writers: Mohsin Hamid

This international Pakistani writer reads from Exit West, his celebrated new novel about 2 young people who begin a furtive love affair in a country teetering on the brink of civil war. They eventually decide to leave their homeland via a perilous new escape route. The book has been widely praised for its deft use of surreal elements, its timeliness, and its compassion. “The mundanity, the minor joys of life, like bringing flowers to a lover, smoking a joint, and looking at stars, compete with the horrors of war,” says a Los Angeles Times review.
5:30 p.m., Rackham