” Smith, whose first books seem to exemplify the style she attacks, compares two famous novels, “ Netherland” and “ Remainder. To begin my case, I cite Zadie Smith’s thesis in her essay, “ Two Paths for the Novel.
If you read no further, please at least take my recommendation and spend a few hours in contemplation of this quietly devastating, unflinching account of the modern refugee and the world’s response to her.
The case I will make for this position is one that I must unravel through a discussion of some of the most nascent questions in contemporary literature, one that I will ultimately support largely through a commendation of Mohsin Hamid’s “ Exit West. In light of this swirling controversy, we tend to look not toward literature, often relegated to the realm of abstract musings on deep human questions with no real import, but to newscasters and politicians, seen as stating hard facts and contriving pragmatic and real-time policy interventions. These migrants, and the ideals they have come to symbolize, provoke presidents and polarize populations. They are not here because they wished to come they are here because they could not stay. Facing persecution and death in their home countries, they travelled great distances. Regardless of any person’s political position on immigration, these migrants deserve our empathy. While we don’t know if this was a ploy to energize his base for the midterms or a serious response to a growing problem at the border, it hardly matters. President Trump deployed troops to the border to stop a caravan of migrants from entering the country.
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