From India to the underground rock scene of New York City, the novel spans continents and faiths, in an expansive and heartfelt look at the need for belief in our globally interconnected world.

Sindhu’s Blue-Skinned Gods is a globe-spanning novel about faith, family and sexuality. A devastating novel about broken relationships, the promises were unable to keep and. In Ramadan’s The Foghorn Echoes, a blooming romance leads to a tragic, life-altering accident when Hussam’s father catches him acting on his feelings for his best friend, Wassim the two are thrust into a decades-long struggle for peace and belonging as past heartbreak continues to reverberate. Author(s): Danny Ramadan Gay & Bi Male Fiction.

Join Syrian-Canadian author Danny Ramadan and Sri Lankan-American author SJ Sindu for an enlightening conversation exploring how each of their new novels addresses the complex construction of identity through family, community and sexuality, and the cultural tensions that arise among them. As Hussam and Wassim come to terms with the past, they begin to realise the secret that haunts them is not the only secret that formed them.Deconstructing Identity: Danny Ramadan & SJ Sindu September 24 at 5:30pm More recently Ramadans sophomore novel, The Foghorn Echoes (Penguin Random House 2022) was released to critical praise by The Guardian, Vanity Fair and. Split between war-torn Damascus and unforgiving Vancouver, The Foghorn Echoes is a tragic love story about coping with shared traumatic experience and devastating separation. Shortlisted for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes 2023- The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Awards Shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards 2023 - Gay Fiction.

Meanwhile Hussam, now on the other side of the world, remains haunted by his own ghosts, doing his utmost to drown them out with every vice imaginable. Masterfully crafted and richly detailed, The Foghorn Echoes is a gripping novel about how to carve out home in the midst of war, and how to move forward when the war is within yourself. Wassim is on the streets, seeking shelter from both the city and the civil war storming his country. : The Foghorn Echoes (9781838854652) by Ramadan, Danny and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great. His debut novel, The Clothesline Swing, was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, longlisted for Canada Reads, and named a Best Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. Wassim promises Hussam his protection, but ten years into the future, he has failed to keep his promise. A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout that ripples through their adult lives. DANNY RAMADAN (he/him) is a Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker, and advocate for LGBTQ+ refugees. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of their families, are shattered. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Hussam and Wassim are teenage boys living in Syria during America's 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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