Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023--San Antonio
The Foghorn Echoes by Dan Ramadan is a novel that won the Lammy award for best gay fiction in 2023. It is a story about the lives to two young Syrian men growing up in a country where life became difficult for them due to family expectations, governmental laws, religious teachings, political turmoil, and a tragic event. It begins in Damascus at the time when Americans were invading neighboring Iraq and continues through the protests and civil war inside Syria. The boys have barely discovered that there is more than friendship between them when their lives are overturned and eventually separated. One leaves the country as a refugee while the other is forced into a marriage that was arranged when he was a young boy and his father's best friend and his wife were expecting a daughter to be born. The refugee suffers from PTSD and loses control of his life as he seeks relief through frequent anonymous sex and drug usage. The other runs away from home sleeping on the streets and eventually in an abandoned home. Will their lives continue in misery forever? I gave the book 4 stars out of 5.
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