This Way Out
Published on 1. July 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-5420-3761-7 (ISBN)
Description
It's time everyone knew the truth, and what better way to announce you're getting married (and gay) than on your family WhatsApp group?
Amar can't wait to tell everyone his wonderful news: he's found The One, and he's getting married. But it turns out announcing his engagement on a group chat might not have been the best way to let his strict Muslim Bangladeshi family know that his happy-ever-after partner is a man-and a white man at that.
Amar expected a reaction from his four siblings, but his bombshell sends shockwaves throughout the community and begins to fracture their family unit, already fragile from the death of their mother. Suddenly Amar is questioning everything he once believed in: his faith, his culture, his family, his mother's love-and even his relationship with Joshua. Amar was sure he knew what love meant, but was he just plain wrong?
He's never thought of his relationship with Joshua as a love story-they just fit together, like two halves of a whole. But if they can reconcile their differences with Amar's culture, could there be hope for his relationship with his family too? And could this whole disaster turn into a love story after all?
Amar can't wait to tell everyone his wonderful news: he's found The One, and he's getting married. But it turns out announcing his engagement on a group chat might not have been the best way to let his strict Muslim Bangladeshi family know that his happy-ever-after partner is a man-and a white man at that.
Amar expected a reaction from his four siblings, but his bombshell sends shockwaves throughout the community and begins to fracture their family unit, already fragile from the death of their mother. Suddenly Amar is questioning everything he once believed in: his faith, his culture, his family, his mother's love-and even his relationship with Joshua. Amar was sure he knew what love meant, but was he just plain wrong?
He's never thought of his relationship with Joshua as a love story-they just fit together, like two halves of a whole. But if they can reconcile their differences with Amar's culture, could there be hope for his relationship with his family too? And could this whole disaster turn into a love story after all?
Reviews / Votes
"This Way Out explores the vastness and intricacy of intercultural relationships alongside religious and spiritual reconnection, mental health, and masculinity in South Asian, Muslim, and LGBTQIA+ cultures, and the power of inclusion and a found family amid love, loss, growth, and change." -Booklist"A beautiful journey" -The New Arab
"Adored reading This Way Out-deeply-felt and thought-provoking in equal measure...It's so fresh and original, I pretty much inhaled it." -Angela Chadwick
"It's fascinating, absorbing, and vital!" -Matt Cain, author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistlex and Becoming Ted
"A total treat! This Way Out...is absolutely lovely. I loved its portrayal of the family you are born into and the family you make along the way. It was funny and sad and poignant and heartfelt...highly recommended." -Bethany Clift, author of Last One at the Party and Love and Other Human Errors
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Publishing group
Amazon Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5420-3761-7 (9781542037617)
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Tufayel Ahmed is a journalist and lecturer who proudly hails from the streets of Tower Hamlets, East London. He has written for Newsweek, Vice, CNN, the Independent and more. This is his first novel. To find out more, visit his website, tufayel.co, or find him on Twitter @tufayel and on Instagram @tufayelahmed.