2018-2019 Common Book Selection
2018-2019 Book Selection
This year’s common book selection is
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid.
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through...
Exit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.
“A breathtaking novel…[that] arrives at an urgent time.” –NPR.org
“Moving, audacious, and indelibly human.” –Entertainment Weekly, “A” rating
OBOM Student Conference
Eighth Annual Open Books - Open Minds Student Conference
Borders and Portals
Friday, April 12, 2019
Panels and roundtables: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Lunch and Keynote Lecture by photographer
Thierry Cohen
Conference Program
Conference Event Poster
Registration for the conference and lunch is free and open to the public:
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
LUNCH REGISTRATION
Events
Summer Reading Group
Please Join us for the OBOM summer book club! Featuring
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Wednesday July 11, 11 a.m., Gaige 302
Tuesday, July 17, 4 p.m., Gaige 206
Themes for Teaching & Research:
War
Refugees & Immigration
Exile, Loss, and Dislocation
Self and Other
Globalization
Race, ethnic, national, & class identities
Human Rights
Storytelling and Social Activism
Apocalypse
Creative Writing and Culture
Dystopia
World Literature and History
Islam
International Relations
Gender
Magical Realism
Ethics & Law
Nativism
Self-Determination
Rebuilding
