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Angry Queer Somali Boy combines Ali's personal story with the history of and commentary on the places he's called home: Somalia, Europe and Canada.
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Angry Queer Somali Boy is a memoir by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali, a young man who left Somalia, spent time in the Netherlands and ended up homeless in Canada.
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Canada was the promised land, but when he didn't fit in and life was more difficult than he expected, Ali turned to drugs and partying before finding his way.
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Ali spent the period from March 2017 to July 2019 writing Angry Queer Somali Boy, while living in a Toronto men's shelter. He says that whenever he had to pause for treatment, his editors and publishers 'were super understanding and supportive.'
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- ↑ "Exile, addiction and racism: what it means to be a gay, Muslim immigrant | CBC Radio". CBC. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
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Angry Queer Somali Boy is interwoven with a contextual background of world history and sociopolitical commentary on both the East and West, from the vantage point of a gay Muslim immigrant.