Born in Beijing but mostly an artifact of the United States, C Pam Zhang has lived in thirteen cities across four countries and is still looking for home. She’s been awarded support from Tin House, Bread Loaf, Aspen Words and elsewhere, and currently lives in San Francisco.Her new novel is How Much of These Hills Is Gold.
At the Guardian Zhang tagged ten top novels that "deal with movements physical and emotional," including:
Exit West by Mohsin HamidRead about another entry on the list.
There are books that make it their mission to shake the reader out of assumptions partway through, and Exit West is one such. What seems a typical, if well-written, contemporary realist love story takes a sharp turn once portals begin to open up, allowing people to cross into countries thousands of miles away. This book slyly undermines the ideas of borders and nationhood.
Exit West is among Helen Phillips's six notable novels involving alternate realities.
--Marshal Zeringue
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