Danny Ramadan Friday Nov 11 2022 7:00pm – 8:00pm

Live/In-Person at Elliott Bay Book Company.
1521 10th Ave. Seattle, WA  98122

Down from his Vancouver home where, in addition to writing, Danny Ramadan has been an activist and advocate, in particular for LGBTQ+ refugees from Syria and the Middle East. The author of an award-winning Canadian children’s book, Salma the Syrian Chef, and a debut novel that was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, The Clothesline Swing, he is here tonight with his new novel, The Foghorn Echoes (Canongate Books). Set between a Damascus riven by war and Vancouver, with time spanning a decade, this is an extraordinary book of hard-sought love between two young men. 

”The Foghorn Echoes is a deeply moving book about conflict both internal and external, the ways in which cold accidents – of birth, of place, of time – can leave a human being at war with their own desires, their own sense of self. Danny Ramadan is a gifted, sensitive excavator of the things that break people and put them back together, the past as weight and lightness. In this novel he has created a world of immense sensory and emotional precision, at once true in its living details and yet electric with the presence of ghosts.” – Omar El Akkad.

”The Foghorn Echoes bristles. It burns bright. It shouts into the dark with a voice that hovers between a melody and a lamentation. Danny Ramadan writes in these pages with a spellbinding urgency, stripping bare some of the most painful and fundamental truths about displacement and grief, about rage and betrayal. In the process, he reminds us again and again that even the worst of memories contain redemptive powers. This novel is a tender and impassioned love story for a country, for a people, and for all those who refuse to disappear quietly into the land of the forgotten.” – Maaza Mengiste.