Longlisted for the 2022 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize
''Tense, lyrical, intelligent'' - The Big Issue
''A heart-wrenching human story'' - Saga
Exit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, on the cusp of their bright future...when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son''s birth.
Boston, 2017: When Hadi returns to his heavily pregnant partner Sama after a trip to Jordan to bury his father, he is stopped at border control - a hostile new immigration law has just been enacted - while she awaits him on the other side.
Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they''d dreamed up together. But does that life exist any more, or was it only an illusion?
Achingly
