Brown boy : a memoir / Omer Aziz.

Brown boy : a memoir / Omer Aziz.

By
Aziz, Omer.

Publication Date
2023

Publication Information
New York : Scribner,

Physical Description
308 p.

Subject Term
Children of immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
 
Pakistani Canadians -- Biography.
 
Muslims -- Canada.
 
Children of immigrants.
 
Muslims.

Geographic Term
Pakistan.

Summary
In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy. As he falls in love with books, and makes his way to Queen's University in Ontario, Sciences Po in Paris, Cambridge University in England, and finally Yale Law School, he continually confronts his own feelings of doubt and insecurity at being an outsider. In Brown Boy, Omer Aziz has written a book that eloquently describes the complex process of creating an identity that fuses where he's from, what people see in him, and who he knows himself to be.

Language
English

ISBN
9781982136314


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall NumberStatus
Gander (GGR)Adult BioAdult BiographyB AZ3Checked In
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH)Adult BioAdult BiographyB AZ3Checked In