{"product_id":"fire-in-every-direction-a-memoir","title":"Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Moving and generous'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsabella Hammad, author of Enter Ghost\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Fire in Every Direction is a marvel'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOmar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Luminous, moving, and achingly beautiful'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I am forever changed after reading this book'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJavier Zamora, author of Solito\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A deeply inspiring and absorbing read'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Gevisser, author of The Pink Line\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Spending time with the real people in Fire in Every Direction is a delight'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth a love story and a coming-of-age tale that spans countries and continents, Fire in Every Direction balances humour and loss, nostalgia and hope, as it takes us from the Middle East to London, and from 1948 to the present. Tareq Baconi crafts a deeply intimate, unforgettable portrait of how a political consciousness - desire and resistance - is passed down through generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1948, Tareq's grandmother would flee Haifa as Zionist militias seized the city. In the late 1970s, she would flee Beirut with her daughter, as the country was in the throes of a civil war. In Amman, the family would eventually obtain the comfort of middle-class life - still, a young Tareq would feel trapped: by cultures of silence, by a sense of not belonging, by his own growing awareness that he is in love with his childhood best friend, Ramzi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter relocating to London, Tareq hopes to put aside his past. Yet as the Iraq War radicalizes young people around the world towards anti-war protest, history comes back to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiving between the region and London, Tareq fits in neither and feels alienated from both. Queerness is policed back in Amman, just as his Palestinian-ness is abroad. These gradual estrangements escalate, forcing him to grapple with what it means to live in liminal spaces, and rethink the meaning of home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ADS Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48348522774751,"sku":"9781399754040","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781399754040.jpg?v=1767748805","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.co.nz\/products\/fire-in-every-direction-a-memoir","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}