This is one of those rare stories that feels at once universal and impossibly strange, rooted in the ordinary challenges of the American Dream but lashed to horrors unfolding on the other side of the planet ... The structure of Every Exit Brings You Home is a work of magic. The story shifts between past and present, near and far, as gracefully as dusk gives way to night ... Murr’s deft interweaving of domestic drama and political memory is the novel’s central triumph.
A novel that is determinedly hopeful without blinking at the possibility of cruelty and betrayal in intimate relations ... Naeem Murr’s expansive talent animates every page.
This isn’t a novel for the weak-hearted, as misery piles onto misery. ... Encapsulates the pain of longing, and the struggle of letting life in when your heart feels like it’s turned to stone.
