This is the second book I have read by Moshin Hamid, the first, THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST. This is a story of both falling in and out of love, as the two main protagonists, Saeed and Nadi, are forced to flee their city by a terrorist group similar to ISIS. They then become refugees, fleeing their city, first to Mykonos, a Greek island, where they found some succor until they finally end up in London, living in an empty mansion along with thirty or forty other refugees. They are harassed by police and nativists and eventually end up in the US, in the Marin Valley of California, where they eventually forge their way and find a semblance of peace and security. Below is a quotation I liked which adumbrates only a part of the problems refugees face.
"Every time a couple moves they begin if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color like white or blue, rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around for us. So it was with Saeed and Nadia, who found themselves changed in each other's eyes in this new place."
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