Gay Somali in African American award winning book

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Seventeen-year-old Carsten Tunes is half Somali and half Cuban and we read how he deals with race, living in America, syncretism, and sexuality while living with his abusive father.

 

[Canuck]

His grandfather denounced his Somali ethnicity by changing the name. He could take any unislamic Somali name. No need to claim him.

 

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He's Somali.

 

[Baraf]

His grandfather denounced his Somali ethnicity by changing the name. He could take any unislamic Somali name. No need to claim him.

The author isn't Somali but the charachter in the book is unless you read the book?

 

[Canuck]

The author isn't Somali but the charachter in the book is unless you read the book?

The title misled me and thought the book is biography of writer