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A Globe and Mail, Hill Times and CBC Best Book of the Year
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to return to your roots?
Drawing on astute political analysis and extensive reporting from around the world, Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From illuminates a personal quest. Kamal Al-Solaylee, author of the bestselling and award-winning Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes and Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone), yearns to return to his homeland of Yemen, now wracked by war, starvation and daily violence, to reconnect with his family. Yemen, as well as Egypt, another childhood home, call to him, even though he ran away from them in his youth and found peace and prosperity in Canada.
In Return, Al-Solaylee interviews dozens of people who have chosen to or long to return to their homelands, from Basques to Irish to Taiwanese. He does make a return of sorts himself, to the Middle East, visiting Israel and the West Bank, as well as Egypt. A chronicle of love and loss, of global reach and personal desires, Return is a book for anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to return to their roots.
About this Author
KAMAL AL-SOLAYLEEis the author of the national bestsellerIntolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, which won the 2013 Toronto Book Award and was a finalist for 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 theWalrusmagazine and "essential reading" by theGlobe and Mail. A finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-fiction as well as the Trillium Book Award,Brownwon 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 inSharpin 2019. He holds a PhD in English and is director of the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia.
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