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The Book Review

Points of No Return

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Mohsin Hamid talks about his new novel, “Exit West,” and Gillian Thomas discusses Marjorie J. Spruill’s “Divided We Stand.”

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The issue of migration, how people fleeing war-torn countries are moving across borders

0:14.8

around the globe is almost impossible to avoid these days.

0:18.8

In author Most Inhomets latest book, Exit West, a couple escapes the chaos of their homeland

0:24.4

only to join the ranks of refugees.

0:26.7

They sort of love opposite directions from a time standpoint.

0:30.9

Nadia loves what might be and who she might become.

0:35.7

Say very much loves where he comes from.

0:38.0

He wants to travel the world and see the world, but he is in love with, in a sense, his

0:42.7

past.

0:43.7

It's Women's History Month.

0:44.9

Jillian Thomas dives into the complicated history of the women's rights and family values

0:49.7

movements in a review of the new book, Divided We Stand.

0:53.7

Well I think so many of the themes in this book were really captured around the women's

1:00.2

march back in January from debates about whether women who identify as pro-life would be included

1:08.3

among the official organizers to some segments of the women's community not feeling as

1:15.9

compelled to call themselves feminists.

1:18.3

As we do every week, we check in with Alexander Alter, but this week we're talking TV

1:23.4

or rather books that are moving onto the small screen.

1:27.0

And Greg John Parlin and I get together to talk about what we're reading this week.

1:31.0

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

1:32.9

I'm Pamela Paul.

1:39.3

Most in Hamid is here now to talk about his new book, Exit West, which is reviewed this

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