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Crooked Teeth

A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir

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Crooked Teeth

Auteur(s): Danny Ramadan
Narrateur(s): Danny Ramadan
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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.

“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. Art et littérature Auteurs Biographies et mémoires Les meilleurs de 2024 Militants Patrimoine islamique Politique et militantisme Moyen-Orient Mémoires LGBTQIA+
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Danny tells an incredible story about his life and really connects with you as a reader. This book reads like a great conversation. It pulls you in and you can feel all the emotions along side him as he tells of his adventures and his struggles. It’s an impactful story of community and the difficulties of finding a place to call home. This memoir will make you feel that there is always hope no matter how hard life is. It deals with so many topics that a lot of people shy away from and or are scared to deal with. It will make you laugh and cry and make you reflect upon your own life in ways that you couldn’t see before.

Danny Ramadan is such a talented writer and his storytelling skills draw you to not only to get invested in his tale but also to learn to trust him when his journey takes you to hard truths in to emotional healing and trauma.

Heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time

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From the beginning of this book, Ramadan tells readers to forget what they think they know about refugees, gay men, and Syrians. He shares his experiences that complicate all of these categories via beautiful prose. Narration was excellent. Highly recommend.

Complicates the standard refugee narrative

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