Exit West: Library Resources: Home

This summer, first-year students at Connecticut College are reading Exit West.

• This is part of the One Book, One Region of Eastern Connecticut
• Foreign Policy magazine calls Mohsin Hamid "a master critic of the modern global condition"
• Exit West and Mohsin Hamid on Wikipedia
• Reader's Guide (Penguin Random House)
• mohsinhamid.com

Topics related to Exit West:

• displacement/rootlessness/alienation
• globalization
• illegal immigrants
• magical realism
• migration/migrants
• Muslims, demonization of
• refugees/refugee crisis
• war

Need research help? Ask a Reference Librarian

• Call the Reference Desk during scheduled hours at (860) 439-2655
• Email: Brief, factual questions can be emailed to refdesk [at] conncoll.edu
• In Person: Reference staff are available to help you find information and use library collections 
• Research Consultation: Use this form to schedule an appointment with a librarian
• Text the Reference Desk during scheduled hours at (860) 787-5001

accessing special collections;

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assistance doing a literature review;

chat about your project;

citation help;

converting and/or editing documents across formats;

formulating a research topic;

get help finding a book in the library;

get help finding, requesting, and obtaining research materials;

ideas for primary sources;

improve your bibliography for a research project;

keyword formulation and subject-specific vocabulary;

limiting or sifting through search results;

organize your schedule by making an appointment with a librarian to get some work done (efficiency);

request materials from another library (inter-library loan);

review scholarly literature together to narrow your topic;

take a tour of the library;

you need a hand using microfilm;

you see something confusing or broken on one of our websites;

etc.