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His is a story of yearning to belong in a time and place where expectation and assumptions around race, faith, language, and origin make such belonging extremely difficult, but it's also a story of the surprising and unexpected ways in which connection and acceptance can be found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this extraordinary debut collection, the process of growing—of trying, failing, and trying again to fit in—is cast against the backdrop of the memory of life in a different time, and different place—a Khartoum being bombed by the United States, a nation seeking to define and understand itself against global powers of infinite reach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaken together, these essays explore how we pick and choose from our experience and environment to help us in the ongoing project of defining who we are—how, for instance, the example of Mo Salah, the profound grief practices of Islam, the nerdy charm of \u003ci\u003eThe O.C.\u003c\/i\u003e's Seth Cohen, and the long shadow of colonialism can cohere into a new and powerful whole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the perfect balance of relatable humor and intellectual ferocity, \u003ci\u003eSon of Elsewhere\u003c\/i\u003e confronts what we know about ourselves, and most important, what we’re still learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eELAMIN ABDELMAHMOUD is a culture writer for \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed News\u003c\/i\u003e and was the host of CBC’s pop culture show \u003ci\u003ePop Chat\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the host of new CBC Radio show \u003ci\u003eCommotion\u003c\/i\u003e. 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