Every Exit Brings you Home is a 2026 novel by Naeem Murr about Jamal "Jack" Shaban, a Gazan immigrant and flight attendant in Chicago, who navigates his complex life as the president of his condo association while grappling with his past, his marriage, and his identity. Set during the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the story uses the microcosm of his building to explore themes of homeland, exile, love, loss, and the search for home, weaving together present-day conflicts with flashbacks to violence in 1980s Gaza.

One of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that “pulses with compassion and moral outrage” (The Wall Street Journal) from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces her complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer.

In this, her first work of memoir, Arundhati Roy writes, “Perhaps even more than a daughter mourning the passing of her mother, I mourn her as a writer who has lost her most enthralling subject.”