KAMAL AL-SOLAYLEE is the author of the nationally bestselling memoir Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, which won the 2013 Toronto Book Award and was a finalist for the CBC's Canada Reads, as well as the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. His second book, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone), was hailed as "brilliant" by the Walrus magazine and "essential reading" by the Globe and Mail. A finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction as well as the Trillium Book Award, Brown won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. A two-time finalist for the National Magazine Awards, Al-Solaylee won a gold medal for his column in Sharp in 2019. He holds a Ph.D. in English and is a professor of journalism and literary non-fiction at Ryerson University in Toronto.
"[An] inspiring story. . . . Al-Solaylee captuers the historical
moment in a way that's real and compelling."--In Toronto
"[A] Forthright and engaging memoir."--Quill & Quire
"A beguiling memoir. . . . I've read many books on Islam and the
Arab world, but none with the intimacy and emotional weight of this
one. . . . An immigrant tale, a queer history, a geopolitical
lesson, and above all, it's a love story."--Stephanie Nolen, author
of 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
"A brilliant and utterly mesmerizing memoir. . . . The book is
informative and emotionally satisfying and a credit to
Al-Solaylee's heart-baring skill. It is enthralling, entertaining
and a must-read."--Fab Magazine
"A bulls-eye of individual truth telling as well as an apt and
timely metaphor . . . a moving and wrenching reminder of the urgent
need for integrity."--Lambda Literary
"A fascinating personal story and a history of a once-liberal
family transformed by the politics and turmoil of the Middle
East."--The Next Chapter, CBC Radio
"A heartbreaking memoir of a man out of place and time. Tracing the
Middle East through the 1980s and '90s, this is a personal
coming-out narrative with a difference."--The Sun Times (Owen
Sound)
"An astounding read."--Canada AM
"An emotionally powerful read."--Critical Stages
"An important and captivating read."--Xtra!
"Enlightening and heartbreaking."--Ottawa Review of Books
"Here is a courageous personal history, all the more powerful for
what it asks of every reader: What would you have done?"--Wayson
Choy, author of All That Matters
"I don't think you'll find a more painfully honest memoir on the
bookshelves."--Inside the News with Peter Mansbridge
"Intolerable brings [Al-Solaylee's] skill as a cultural analyst to
the spiritual ailments of the Arab world. . . . Powerful, heartfelt
. . . necessary reading for anyone who cares about Canada's place
in the world."--The Walrus
"This beautiful book about a family's tortured relationship to
history-and a region's fraught relationship to modernity-is
everything a great memoir should be: It's as moving as it is
complex."--The Globe and Mail
"This is [a book] about survival and identity on many levels. The
whole story is so singular and unlike any biography I have ever
read. I could not put it down."--Maclean's
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