As home becomes a place they hardly recognize, even the option to flee evaporates-until rumors reach them of doorways that work like portals, opening onto the unscathed streets of San Diego or Vienna or Mykonos. One day cell-phone service simply switches off, and doesn’t come back. But a harsher reality bleeds in from the margins of their unnamed Middle Eastern city: Bombs go off in busy markets manned checkpoints are erected and strict curfews set refugees pitch tents in alleys and greenways while anxious citizens line up for dwindling supplies. They talk and listen to records and begin to fall in love. He’s the dutiful son who works at ad agency and still lives at home she’s the rebel who rides a motorbike and rolls joints on the rooftop terrace of her own tiny, treasured apartment. Boy meets girl in a university classroom.
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