The Year of the Runaways

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A Washington Post and Boston Globe Best Book of the Year Deeply affecting. . . . No recent novel does a more powerful job of capturing the day-to-day lives of . . . immigrants. - The New York Times Masterful. . . . Not only a timely book, but a gut-wrenching, emotionally honest one, as well. -NPR A major achievement. . . . Sahota is a clear-eyed, unflinching storyteller. - The New Yorker The Grapes of Wrath for the 21st century. . . . Sahota has captured the plight of millions of desperate people struggling to find work, to eke out some semblance of a decent life in a world increasingly closed-fisted and mean. - The Washington Post [A] sprawling, stunning novel. - Minneapolis Star Tribune Sahota's superb novel helps to make the reality of migrants a little less unimaginable and a little more human. - The Wall Street Journal