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An emotional story of family and love

This Way Out by Tufayel Ahmed

July 7, 2022 by LB 1 Comment

This Way Out is beautiful, emotional, and such a great story of Amar figuring out how to reconcile being gay with being Muslim, being Bangladeshi while loving a white Englishman. This Way Out opens with Amar telling his family via WhatsApp that he’s engaged and his fiancée is a man, but then he hides from the responses from his siblings because he doesn’t actually feel ready for what their response will be. His family’s reaction is complicated and because he’s still coping with grief of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: gay, gay Muslim, LGBTQIA, litfic, Muslim, queer, religion and sexuality, This way out, tufayel Ahmed

LB's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: gay, gay Muslim, LGBTQIA, litfic, Muslim, queer, religion and sexuality, This way out, tufayel Ahmed ·
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