About the Book: Fire in Every Direction
A book filled with love, from and for his own family, for the region, Palestine
and queer cultureGuardianLuminous, moving, and achingly beautifulMaaza Mengiste,
author of The Shadow KingTareqs grandmother fled Haifa in 1948, as Zionist
militias seized the city. In the late 1970s she escaped civil war in Beirut with
her daughter. The family eventually settled in Amman, but a young Tareq still
felt trapped: by cultures of silence, by a sense of not belonging, by a growing
awareness that he was in love with his childhood best friend. Both a
coming-of-age tale and a love story, Fire in