![]() Masterfully crafted and richly detailed, The Foghorn Echoes is a gripping novel about how to carve out home in the midst of war, and how to move forward when the war is within yourself. Indeed, the song precognizes Pink Floyd s 1971 opus 'Echoes' to. What was begun on Children of the Future is more fully realized on Sailor, most notably on the opening 'Song for Our Ancestors,' which begins with a foghorn and only gets stranger from there. The past continues to reverberate through the present as Hussam and Wassim come face to face with heartache, history, drag queens, border guards, and ghosts both literal and figurative. The result of all those ideas, of course, came together on 1968s magnificent Sailor LP. Taking shelter in a deserted villa, he unearths the previous owner’s buried secrets while reckoning with his own. Wassim is living on the streets of Damascus, having abandoned a wife and child and a charade he could no longer keep up. ![]() Sponsored as a refugee by a controlling older man, Hussam is living an openly gay life in Vancouver, where he attempts to quiet his demons with sex, drugs, and alcohol. Ten years later, Hussam and Wassim are still struggling to find peace and belonging. In an instant, the course of their lives is changed forever. A blooming romance leads to a tragic accident when Hussam’s father catches him acting on his feelings for his best friend, Wassim. "A sweeping and mesmerizing story that spans time and mortal space so expertly and elegantly." -Alan CummingĪ deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout that ripples through their adult lives. ![]() *SHORTLISTED FOR A 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD* ![]() *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE* ![]()
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