Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir (Regina Collection #14)

Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali

$16.95

Publish Date: May 16, 2020

Publisher:

University of Regina Press

ISBN:

9780889777590

Pages:

176

Language:

English

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Description

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.

About the 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.