Tareq Baconi
Not quite a self-help book, this coming of age story of self-discovery for a person (and a people) who was displaced is a autobiography that follows Tareq Baconi, his mother, and his grandmother from Haifa to Amman and then London.
After relocating to London for college, Tareq hopes to put aside his past, and begins to work through an understanding of self as a queer man. Yet as the Iraq War radicalizes young people around the world towards anti-war protest, history comes back to him: hushed whispers overheard, stories of his mother’s years as an activist.
Queerness is policed back in Amman, just as his Palestinian-ness is abroad. These gradual estrangements escalate, forcing him to grapple with what it means to live in liminal spaces, and rethink the meaning of home.
Vincent Francoeur 