We’re delighted to welcome you back to the library with the return of the Recommended Reading Bookshelf. The August–September display focuses on this year’s Marino Workshop novel, Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. It features:
- Other works by Hamid, such as Discontent and Its Civilizations and The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
- Nonfiction works that discuss the novel’s themes of borders and migration, nativism, and the refugee experience. Titles include A is For Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move, The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis, and Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities.
- Refugee narratives such as Malala Yousafzai’s We are Displaced: My Journey and Refugee Stories from Girls Around the World and Viet Than Nguyen’s The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives.
- Contemporary Pakistani literature such as Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire and Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes.
The virtual bookshelf is available now, and the in-person display will be available on the third floor of Lauinger Library, near the Circulation and Reference desks, beginning the week of August 16. All books will be available for immediate check out.