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This Way Out

By: Tufayel Ahmed
Narrated by: Rohan Rakhit
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Publisher's summary

It’s time everyone knew the truth, and what better way to announce you’re getting married (and gay) than on your family WhatsApp group?

Amar can’t wait to tell everyone his wonderful news: he’s found The One, and he’s getting married. But it turns out announcing his engagement on a group chat might not have been the best way to let his strict Muslim Bangladeshi family know that his happy-ever-after partner is a man—and a white man at that.

Amar expected a reaction from his four siblings, but his bombshell sends shockwaves throughout the community and begins to fracture their family unit, already fragile from the death of their mother. Suddenly Amar is questioning everything he once believed in: his faith, his culture, his family, his mother’s love—and even his relationship with Joshua. Amar was sure he knew what love meant, but was he just plain wrong?

He’s never thought of his relationship with Joshua as a love story—they just fit together, like two halves of a whole. But if they can reconcile their differences with Amar’s culture, could there be hope for his relationship with his family too? And could this whole disaster turn into a love story after all?

©2022 Tufayel Ahmed (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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Critic reviews

“Narrator Rohan Rahkit adds depth to Amar's soul-searching as he tries to please his family and stay true to his faith and himself. Will resonate with anyone seeking to reconcile the intersections in their own lives. Romance is central, but Ahmed's novel will also appeal to those interested in family conflict.”Library Journal

This Way Out explores the vastness and intricacy of intercultural relationships alongside religious and spiritual reconnection, mental health, and masculinity in South Asian, Muslim, and LGBTQIA+ cultures, and the power of inclusion and a found family amid love, loss, growth, and change.”Booklist

“It’s fascinating, absorbing, and vital!”—Matt Cain, author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistlex and Becoming Ted

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It's Okay

This story is fine. The narration is decent.
The main character, Amar, is a little too whiny to make this story great.

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New favorite book

Oh man. I laughed, I cried. You don’t see many (any?) books about being in a gay interracial/cultural relationship. I identified with sooo much of it even without living such overtly dramatic events. I think a lot of second generation immigrants will find something to identify with about straddling two worlds. It’s a rare gift to write a book that deals with such hard things and manage to not make it dreary. The dry humor sprinkled in was excellent. Read this book. Especially to the people searching audible for m/m romance, who usually read books written by women for women, this is real life beautiful. I encourage you to read something written in #ownvoice.

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A rollercoaster of Love and Growth

An amazing story of life, love, grief, and personal growth. The interactions with the main character's father hit so close to home and had me in tears.

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Wonderful “not a love story”

I agree that it’s not a typical love story but more of a evolution of love & life story. Love the way the character learns to love himself & his family & his religion in a new way! Loved the book!

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