Fire in Every Direction
- Author Tareq Baconi
- Narrator Tareq Baconi
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date 12 February 2026
- Run Time 8 hours and 4 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies, Memoirs.
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Both a love story and a coming-of-age tale that spans countries and continents, Fire in Every Direction balances humour and loss, nostalgia and hope, as it takes us from the Middle East to London, and from 1948 to the present. Tareq Baconi crafts a deeply intimate, unforgettable portrait of how a political consciousness - desire and resistance - is passed down through generations.
In 1948, Tareq's grandmother would flee Haifa as Zionist militias seized the city. In the late 1970s, she would flee Beirut with her daughter, as the country was in the throes of a civil war. In Amman, the family would eventually obtain the comfort of middle-class life - still, a young Tareq would feel trapped: by cultures of silence, by a sense of not belonging, by his own growing awareness that he is in love with his childhood best friend, Ramzi.
After relocating to London, Tareq hopes to put aside his past. Yet as the Iraq War radicalizes young people around the world towards anti-war protest, history comes back to him.
Living between the region and London, Tareq fits in neither and feels alienated from both. Queerness is policed back in Amman, just as his Palestinian-ness is abroad. These gradual estrangements escalate, forcing him to grapple with what it means to live in liminal spaces, and rethink the meaning of home.
| Author | Tareq Baconi |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Tareq Baconi |
| Duration | 8 hours and 4 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781399739641 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Genre | LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies, Memoirs |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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