Now, though, this unnamed city is filling with refugees. We think we know what will happen next: a boy-girl love story, opposites attracting, secular individuals struggling with the shackles of a theological state. Nadia, who wears a full black robe and is employed by an insurance company, lives alone, rides a motorbike, enjoys vinyl and psychedelic mushrooms. Saeed is down-to-earth, the son of a university professor, and works at an ad agency. A man and a woman meet at an evening class on corporate identity and product branding. Exit West, a novel about migration and mutation, full of wormholes and rips in reality, begins as it mostly doesn’t go on.
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