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This Way Out Kindle Edition

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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?

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1 July 2022
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“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

“Adored reading This Way Out—deeply-felt and thought-provoking in equal measure…It’s so fresh and original, I pretty much inhaled it.” —Angela Chadwick

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

“A total treat! This Way Out…is absolutely lovely. I loved its portrayal of the family you are born into and the family you make along the way. It was funny and sad and poignant and heartfelt…highly recommended.” —Bethany Clift, author of Last One at the Party and Love and Other Human Errors

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Tufayel Ahmed had me laughing, crying, and utterly gripped from the first page of his debut, This Way Out. Amar has everything he’s ever wanted—he’s found The One, has great friends, and loves his job at an independent bookstore. The only problem is that Amar has a secret, and when he accidentally-on-purpose announces it in the family WhatsApp group, everything changes...

Coming out to his family in a group chat isn’t exactly the way Amar had planned to deliver the news, but after twenty-eight years of hiding it, the truth is finally out. While he’s used to the acceptance of his and (now-fiancé) Joshua’s London friends, when it comes to his Bangladeshi Muslim family, he knows not everyone is going to be happy. The fallout brings many casualties, leading Amar to question everything he once took for granted—his religion, his culture, his relationship, and his family—as he embarks on a riotous and emotional journey of self-discovery and begins to understand what love (in all its forms) truly means.

Can finally revealing who he truly is help Amar find the right path and lead him to his very own happy ending? This book may not start out as a love story, but let me assure you, it 100% ends that way and will have you, too, laughing, crying, and swooning until the very last page!

—Victoria Oundjian, Editor

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09D3JCQ19
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lake Union Publishing (1 July 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2085 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 268 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1542037611

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Tufayel Ahmed is a London-based journalist, author and lecturer. He has written for Newsweek, CNN, The Independent, The Big Issue, Forbes and more. His debut novel, This Way Out, is published in July 2022. Tufayel lives with his dog, Gigi Hadog, and loves the kitschy art of pro wrestling and Beyoncé. Visit Tufayel's website www.tufayel.co or follow him on Twitter, @tufayel.

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teresam

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 June 2022

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The blurb made out that this was a funny story however it really wasn’t the laugh aloud book it was promised to be in the blurb . At times it was really depressing and the whole focus seems to be the death of the main character’s mum which was gone over again and again on almost every page . Not fun when you want something lighthearted and easy to read . I kept having to put it down as at times it was too depressing and I don’t think I’ve ever skipped so much in one book before. Battled through to try and find the humour but it was never there . Not a book to read if you’re feeling down .

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Romina

Loss, love and family

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 June 2022

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This is the story of Amar a scared, greving, gay, Muslim, Bangladeshi, born in London guy. That is, after 3 years, trying to come to terms with the passing of his mother.

He's in a committed, loving and extremely supportive relationship with Joshua (his religion is never mentioned), who proposed recently. This is where the problem begin, in a whim Amar decided to text his family WhatsApp group to come out and share the wedding news. You can imagine how that one went.
From there everything goes down hill pretty fast, his family not accepting him (as you could expect from a deeply religious family), him spending so much of his time being self absorbed, dramatic and taking the victim role that ends up blaming his fiance for not being an expert in what he might be thinking, feeling or going through (obviously without sharing one thought with him).
This is where I was having some difficulty liking the character. But at the same time is necessary because otherwise we wouldn't see all the soul searching that happens next.
Truly is a ride, and plants the seed for some personal discussion with myself.
It also takes the time to show and expose us to a different culture which is one of the reasons I picked this book

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Gina

I loved this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 July 2022

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I loved this book.

Pros: I loved so many of the main characters and felt completely drawn in. I laughed, I cried, I wanted the book to go on so I didn't have to say goodbye to the characters. Having said that, the book ends beautifully with no obvious loose ends.

I could relate to so much: the interfering mother-in-law who means well but... The loss of a mother taking years to recover from. Wanting to fit in with your family but not always sharing their values.

It also gave me a real heads-up on how easy it is to ignore my privilege.

Cons: Some of the characters were less well drawn than others - I've been both sides of the counselling relationship, and Fiona is more directive than most counsellors I've met.

It gets a bit preachy in places.

Also, there's a level of disbelief needed for some of the events - but this is fiction after all and it makes a good story.

The pros easily outweigh the cons and I'm hoping to see more from this author.

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Hugh R. Wright

Compelling & impressive queer fiction début

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 June 2022

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Great book and impressive debut novel. A compelling, concise story of a gay Muslim man in his late 20s, navigating the still-raw grief at losing his mother a few years prior to the story's opening, and finding love with his – white – fiancé.

Amar bungles coming out to his devout Muslim Bangladeshi family, doing it by WhatsApp, only to be taken aback by the severity of their hostility. Understandably this shakes the foundations of his life, a situation made worse when his fiancé's middle-class, country-dwelling parents overcompensate.

Questioning not only his faith but also his relationship, Amar is further distressed by the potential loss of his job in the bookshop where he first met his now-fiancé Joshua, and where owner Elijah and best friend Malika form a surrogate family and support network.

Seeking help both from a therapist and an LGBTQ+ Islam message board (an odd anachronism in an otherwise very 2022, Gen X story in which WhatsApp, TikTok and Uber feature heavily!) Amar starts to reconcile his conflicted feelings about his queerness, family and faith, and ultimately reaches satisfying conclusions which acknowledge, sensibly, that while we can't always fit all the pieces of our life together neatly like a jigsaw, we can still make a pretty picture out of the ones that do.

The book isn't perfect; chronologically it spans about a year but some scenarios feel like they could have been tied up in days or weeks) and there are several references to the possibility of a church/religious wedding for the central same-sex couple which isn't, yet, a possibility in the UK, an oversight which I'm surprised made it past the editors. And for all that he is a character one can't fail to sympathise with, Amar can be maddeningly selfish and impulsive at times, making you want to reach into the pages and – lovingly – shake him out of it.

But, as an exploration of race, faith and queerness in modern Britain, it's a fantastic book, compelling reading and highly informative – I think it will give readers of all races, genders and sexualities, of faith or none, much food for thought. It certainly has me!

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Mrs Susan Elward

Terrifying

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 June 2022

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Anyone who's interested in Islam should read this book. How does a religion get away with preaching that homosexuality is a mental illness? How can an elderly Bangladeshi suggest that white children are corrupt just because they aren't Muslim? And something that really made me smile: the complaint that Brick Lane was full of white people. Written completely without irony. This book has shocked me. I believed that equality and integration was possible - but it now seems that it will only happen by force driven by sexual orientation and sexual desire.(Facilitated by the liberal laws of a despised Christian country!)

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Annaire

A heartwarming read with a few teachable moments

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2022

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I loved how the book started and where it ended up. In between I wanted to grab the main character and give him a good shake. Along the way you learn a few things you likely need to understand.

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