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This Way Out
- Narrated by: Rohan Rakhit
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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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?
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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- Amazon Customer
- 23-10-22
Excellent book great read
with all the ups and downs and testing relationships and culture differences and challenges had me worried.
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- Googalies
- 16-10-22
Best narrator
This was a long listen but very well performed by Rohan Rakhit. The best narration I have come across to date.
The book captures a really important subject sensitivity.
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- Afshan M
- 28-07-23
Loved this book and the heart felt narration
Wow! I really loved this book- as a non practicing Muslim I was terrified for the main character knowing that even wanting to marry a non Muslim can have you disowned! But being gay. He was so brave and his family were actually really lovely/ It was almost too good to be true at the end! Unfortunately in real life it’s rarely like this but we can dream. The writing was very introspective and the narration slow in parts but I got into the slow rhythm of the book. Highly recommend! Can see this as a movie!
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- Hemmel M.
- 01-07-22
did not finish at 20%
I listened for 2 hours to give this novel a fair chance. It is not for me. I have no patience for long discussions about being gay is not a choice. And the very limited mentioning of the fiance make me fear thuis story is not about a relationship but one long inner monolog.
The narrator is no performer but a reader. I have major issues with his pauses between sentences. Pauses up to three seconds or more. You have to listen closely: if the next word is a conjucture you know it is still the same paragraph.
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