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The Advocate Best of 2019
CBC Books Best of 2019
Popmatters Best of 2019
“Heartbreaking.” —Quill & Quire
Kidnapped by his father on the eve of Somalia’s societal implosion, Mohamed Ali was taken first to the Netherlands by his stepmother, and then later on to Canada. Unmoored from his birth family and caught between twin alienating forces of Somali tradition and Western culture, Mohamed must forge his own queer coming of age.
What follows in this fierce and unrelenting account is a story of one young man’s nascent sexuality fused with the violence wrought by displacement.
Price: $16.95
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Imprint: University of Regina Press
Publication Date:
16 May 2020
Trim Size: 7.48 X 4.72 in
ISBN: 9780889777590
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
"A tour de force."
— Omayra Issa, Radio-Canada
"Both tragic and healing, Angry Queer Somali Boy offers resplendent writing that intimately grapples with placelessness, identity, and belonging, in all its forms."
— Huda Hassan, writer and researcher
"A stunning memoir that will resonate with every queer person who has been through the fire."
— Diriye Osman, author
— Omayra Issa, Radio-Canada
"Both tragic and healing, Angry Queer Somali Boy offers resplendent writing that intimately grapples with placelessness, identity, and belonging, in all its forms."
— Huda Hassan, writer and researcher
"A stunning memoir that will resonate with every queer person who has been through the fire."
— Diriye Osman, author
Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and lived in the United Arab Emirates and the Netherlands before immigrating to Canada as a teenager. He currently lives in Toronto.