Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir

By Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali

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The Advocate Best of 2019

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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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889777594
• ISBN13: 9780889777590
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.8" x 7.2"