The Foghorn Echoes

Danny Ramadan

VIKING

Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir

<p>A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout that ripples through their adult lives.\nSyria, 2003. A blooming romance leads to a tragic accident when Hussam’s father catches him acting on his feelings for his best friend, Wassim. In an instant, the course of their lives is changed forever.\nTen years later, Hussam and Wassim are still struggling to find peace and belonging. Sponsored as a refugee by a controlling older man, Hussam is living an openly gay life in Vancouver, where he attempts to quiet his demons with sex, drugs, and alcohol. Wassim is living on the streets of Damascus, having abandoned a wife and child and a charade he could no longer keep up. Taking shelter in a deserted villa, he unearths the previous owner’s buried secrets while reckoning with his own.\nThe past continues to reverberate through the present as Hussam and Wassim come face to face with heartache, history, drag queens, border guards, and ghosts both literal and figurative.\nMasterfully crafted and richly detailed, The Foghorn Echoes is a gripping novel about how to carve out home in the midst of war, and how to move forward when the war is within yourself.</p>

Foghorn Echoes

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Canongate

Nebelhorn-Echos

Orlanda Verlag GmbH

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