Exit West

by Mohsin Hamid

Perhaps he had been selfish, his notion of helping the youth and the country through teaching and research merely an expression of vanity, and the far more decent path would have been to pursue wealth at all costs.

these three people sharing this one apartment splashed and intersected with each other across varied and multiple streams of time.

this looming potential departure was altogether different, for he doubted he would come back, and the scattering of his extended family and his circle of friends and acquaintances, forever, struck him as deeply sad, as amounting to the loss of a home, no less, of his home.

that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.