![]() Much as Teta spied on him and Taymour through a keyhole, Rasa examines his inadequate memories, trying to understand how everything fits together and how he can build a future, with or without the man he loves. Throughout the novel, episodes from Rasa's past bleed into the narrative. ![]() ![]() However, one morning Rasa's grandmother Teta discovers him and Taymour in bed together: "There is everything that has ever happened, and then there is this morning." The tumultuous day takes Rasa from his grandmother's apartment, to slums to interview Islamist rebels to a police station to bail out his best friend, activist and drag queen Maj to the underground gay bar Guapa and eventually to Taymour's lavish wedding to a woman. Disenchanted with the failed revolution of a few months prior and tired of his work translating for foreign journalists and businesses, Rasa finds hope and comfort in the arms of his lover, Taymour. ![]() Rasa is an American-educated young man living in an unnamed Arab country. Family, identity, and politics collide in Haddad's debut. ![]()
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