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Angry Queer Somali Boy
A Complicated Memoir
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
“A tour de force.” —Omayra Issa, Radio-Canada
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.
“Heartbreaking.” —Quill & Quire
“A stunning memoir that will resonate with every queer person who has been through the fire.” —Diriye Osman, author of Fairytales for Lost Children
“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 masterpiece of memoir, but also a cultural critique of the first order.” —Popmatters
The Advocate “Best of 2019”
CBC Books “Best of 2019”
Popmatters “Best of 2019”
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.
“Heartbreaking.” —Quill & Quire
“A stunning memoir that will resonate with every queer person who has been through the fire.” —Diriye Osman, author of Fairytales for Lost Children
“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 masterpiece of memoir, but also a cultural critique of the first order.” —Popmatters
The Advocate “Best of 2019”
CBC Books “Best of 2019”
Popmatters “Best of 2019”
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali
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. This is his first book.
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Xamar Jajab, or Broken Hamar
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Torn Desert Flowers
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The Dutch Disease
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(S)he Does Not Know Her Beauty
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The Great White North
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Bienvenue à Toronto
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The Past in Pictures As
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A Place of No Abiding Use
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Gentrification of the Mind
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A Rain-Bearing Cloud at Night
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The Span of My Uncertain Years
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Run, Mohamed, Run
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There Were Nights That Can Never Be Forgotten
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The Morass of Vice and Libertinage
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Brave Old World
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Flames Ravaging His Glowing Hair
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Selected Bibliography
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A NOTE ON THE TYPE
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The Regina Collection
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December 12, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9780889776609
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176
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Keywords for this book
life story; somali canadian; toronto homeless; LGBTQ+; Canadian nonfiction; homelessness canada; displacement; Somali heritage; emotional memoir; boyhood; Netherlands; cultural assimilation; multiculturalism; cultural heritage; survivor; family conflict; racism canada; sexual violence; immigration; Somalian Civil War; trauma; masculinity; LGBTQ+ Studies; Intersectionality; immigrant canada; queer memoir; sexuality; addiction; refugee; autobiography
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For a non-specialist adult audience
