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Book Title
Brown Boy : a Memoir
Publication Name
Brown Boy
Title
Brown Boy
Subtitle
A Memoir
Author
Omer Aziz
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1982136324
EAN
9781982136321
ISBN
9781982136321
Publisher
Scribner
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Political
Release Year
2024
Release Date
16/04/2024
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz
Publication Year
2024
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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An uncompromising portrait of identity, family, religion, race, and class that "cuts to the bone" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) told through Omer Aziz's incisive and luminous prose. In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy. He fears the violence and despair of the world around him, and sees a dangerous path ahead, succumbing to aimlessness, apathy, and rage. In his senior year of high school, Omer quickly begins to realize that education can open up the wider world. But as he falls in love with books, and makes his way to Queen's University in Ontario, Sciences Po in Paris, Cambridge University in England, and finally Yale Law School, he continually confronts his own feelings of doubt and insecurity at being an outsider, a brown-skinned boy in an elite white world. He is searching for community and identity, asking questions of himself and those he encounters, and soon finds himself in difficult situations--whether in the suburbs of Paris or at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Yet the more books Omer reads and the more he moves through elite worlds, his feelings of shame and powerlessness only grow stronger, and clear answers recede further away. Weaving together his powerful personal narrative with the books and friendships that move him, Aziz wrestles with the contradiction of feeling like an Other and his desire to belong to a Western world that never quite accepts him. He poses the questions he couldn't have asked in his youth: Was assimilation ever really an option? Could one transcend the perils of race and class? And could we--the collective West--ever honestly confront the darker secrets that, as Aziz discovers, still linger from the past? In Brown Boy , Omer Aziz has written an eye-opening book that eloquently describes the complex process of creating an identity that fuses where he's from, what people see in him, and who he knows himself to be.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1982136324
ISBN-13
9781982136321
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28061247929

Product Key Features

Book Title
Brown Boy : a Memoir
Author
Omer Aziz
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Political
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.4 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
F1059.5.T689p344
Reviews
"A sterling portrait of personal revelation, cuts to the bone." -- Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "The significance of Omer Aziz's Brown Boy is captured in the very first story he tells--that tension between being caught between two worlds. When Derek Walcott writes, 'Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?,' Aziz responds with Brown Boy , a powerful articulation of what it means to navigate not just identities, but borders and possibility." --Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of Felon "A brilliant and moving memoir of, among other things, class migration and the choices made by outsiders. Aziz writes with sensitivity and honesty about the tensions between growing up in a working class immigrant home and the worlds of elite education and politics. This book will surely make it onto any reading list exploring the twin preoccupations of our time: race and class." -- Zia Haider Rahman, author of In The Light of What We Know "Omer Aziz's astonishing journey from economic hardship and violence to Yale and becoming a foreign policy advisor would be fascinating even if it didn't tell us things we absolutely need to know: Why have the white and minority communities withdrawn into their separate corners; what can be done to bring them together? An essential memoir." -- Akhil Sharma, author of Family Life and An Obedient Father. "This breathtaking, brilliant memoir had me from page one--I couldn't put it down. Omer Aziz is a poet, his writing luminous. Brown Boy is eye-opening, achingly honest, alternately hilarious and heartbreaking--an unforgettable book." --Amy Chua, author of Political Tribes and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother " Brown Boy is a poignant, unflinching exploration of cultural identity: the roles we perform, the ways we are misperceived, and the conflicted feelings we can have about our pasts. Omer Aziz illuminates what it is like to be the child of immigrants and the unique invisibility that comes with being South Asian. I saw myself reflected in these pages. How rare, to encounter one's story with such candor and vulnerability. How rare, and how necessary." --Maya Shanbhag Lang, author of What We Carry , a New York Times Editors' Choice
Lccn
2024-003667

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