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Crooked Teeth A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION
FINALIST FOR THE VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 EVERGREEN AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE
AN AUDIBLE BEST BOOK OF 2024
A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place.
āWriting this memoir is a betrayal.ā 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 heād rather forget and unearth memories of a city he can no longer return to.
Starting with his familyās humble beginnings in Damascus, he takes readers on an epic, border-crossing journey: to the cityās 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 Syriaās LGBTQ+ community, and a traumatic six-week imprisonment; to beaches and sunsets with friends in Beirut; to an arrival in Vancouver thatās 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 narrativeāa 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.
FINALIST FOR THE VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 EVERGREEN AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE
AN AUDIBLE BEST BOOK OF 2024
A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place.
āWriting this memoir is a betrayal.ā 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 heād rather forget and unearth memories of a city he can no longer return to.
Starting with his familyās humble beginnings in Damascus, he takes readers on an epic, border-crossing journey: to the cityās 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 Syriaās LGBTQ+ community, and a traumatic six-week imprisonment; to beaches and sunsets with friends in Beirut; to an arrival in Vancouver thatās 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 narrativeāa 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.
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Crooked Teeth A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoirā
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FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION
FINALIST FOR THE VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 EVERGREEN AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE
AN AUDIBLE BEST BOOK OF 2024
A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place.
āWriting this memoir is a betrayal.ā 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 heād rather forget and unearth memories of a city he can no longer return to.
Starting with his familyās humble beginnings in Damascus, he takes readers on an epic, border-crossing journey: to the cityās 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 Syriaās LGBTQ+ community, and a traumatic six-week imprisonment; to beaches and sunsets with friends in Beirut; to an arrival in Vancouver thatās 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 narrativeāa 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.
FINALIST FOR THE VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 EVERGREEN AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE
AN AUDIBLE BEST BOOK OF 2024
A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place.
āWriting this memoir is a betrayal.ā 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 heād rather forget and unearth memories of a city he can no longer return to.
Starting with his familyās humble beginnings in Damascus, he takes readers on an epic, border-crossing journey: to the cityās 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 Syriaās LGBTQ+ community, and a traumatic six-week imprisonment; to beaches and sunsets with friends in Beirut; to an arrival in Vancouver thatās 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 narrativeāa 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.
