LGBTQ+ Resource Center Invites you to a book reading of Angry Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir by Toronto-based author Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali.

Book Description 

Kidnapped by his father on the eve of Somalia's societal implosion, Mohamed Ali was taken first to the Netherlands by his stepmother, and then later on to Canada. Unmoored from his birth family and caught between twin alienating forces of Somali tradition and Western culture, Mohamed must forge his own queer coming of age. What follows in this fierce and unrelenting account is a story of one young man's nascent sexuality fused with the violence wrought by displacement. 

Author 

Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali was born in 1985 in Mogadishu and today calls Toronto home. He's currently working on his second book.

Date/Time: Monday, June 6, at 1 p.m.

This is a virtual event and will be held on Zoom. 

First five registrants will receive a copy of Angry Queer Somali Boy as a gift.

Register on the event webpage.