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Crooked teeth : a queer Syrian refugee memoir / Danny Ramadan.

Summary:

"'Writing this memoir is a betrayal.' So begins this electrifying personal account from Danny Ramadan, a celebrated novelist who has long enjoyed the shield his fiction provides. Now, to tell the story of his life, he must revisit dark corners of his past he'd rather forget and unearth memories of a city he can no longer return to. Starting with his family's humble beginnings in Damascus, he takes readers on an epic, border-crossing journey: to the city's underground network of queer safe homes; to a clandestine party at a secluded villa in Cairo; through Arab Spring uprisings across the Middle East, a reckless hoax that threatens the safety of Syria's LGBTQ+ community, and a traumatic six-week imprisonment; to beaches and sunsets with friends in Beirut; to an arrival in Vancouver that's not as smooth as it promised to be; and ultimately to a life of hard-won comfort and love. What emerges is a powerful refutation of the oversimplified refugee narrative -- a book that holds space for joy alongside sorrow, for nuance and complicated ambivalences. Written with fearless intimacy, Crooked Teeth is a singular achievement in which a master storyteller learns that his greatest story is his own"--Back cover.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780735242210 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: 284 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : Viking, 2024.
Subject: Ramadan, Ahmad Danny.
Novelists, Canadian > 21st century > Biography.
Refugees > Canada > Biography.
Refugees > Syria > Biography.
Sexual minorities > Biography.
Authors, Canadian (English) > 21st century > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Innisfil Public Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lakeshore Branch.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lakeshore Branch 819.36 Ramad 31681010374536 NONFICPBK Available -


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