Crossing borders into connection with an Other, not group membership, constitutes home.

Evidence

It is not nation or culture or race that offers a sense of home in this text but the recognition of connectedness with an Other—in other words, of crossing borders. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 352

Categorization

• XREF: Sharpens the reading of home and belonging in The Namesake and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, both concerned with where home actually resides.