Exit West Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction (2019) the body becomes strange and

the body becomes strange and unfamiliar terrain

and the uses of the unknown

and religious boundaries

From student to line cook to teacher to waitress and eventually to award-winning author

written in Sanskrit by Yashodhara during the Middle Ages

Exit West Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction (2019) the body becomes strange andAll over the world, doors are appearing. They lead to other cities, other countries, other lives. And in a city gripped by war, Nadia and Saeed are newly in love. Hardly more than strangers, desperate to survive, they open a door and step through. But the doors only go one way. Once you leave, there is no going back.