The contemporary musico-literary and bildungsroman novel Exile Music [Steil, Exile music. London: Viking. (2020)] narrates the life of Orly, a Jewish refugee who flees Vienna in 1939 with her musician parents and finds sanctuary in La Paz in the Bolivian Andes. Steil uses the refugee context to search for, and find, connections between seemingly disparate people, objects, or concepts, including Austria and Bolivia; Western classical music and indigenous Andean music; and words and music. Informed by musicological and critical refugee studies—as musico-literary novels require an interdisciplinary methodological approach—this chapter connects the novel’s representation of music with its depiction of the refugee experience of exile and acculturation, focused on the theme of composing connections. I propose that Orly composes a version of Bhabha’s postcolonial “hybridity” and “third space” in the development of her own confident sense of individual and hybrid identity, achieved through her musical skill that emphasises the multiplicitous, and therefore diverse, qualities of music. In doing so, Exile Music depicts how it is not necessarily one type of music that might offer a point of connection for seemingly disparate people or countries, but instead it is musical skill that allows one to learn how to find and value connections in difference.