This Way Out
English
By (author): Tufayel Ahmed
Its time everyone knew the truth, and what better way to announce youre getting married (and gay) than on your family WhatsApp group?
Amar cant wait to tell everyone his wonderful news: hes found The One, and hes 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 manand 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 mothers loveand even his relationship with Joshua. Amar was sure he knew what love meant, but was he just plain wrong?
Hes never thought of his relationship with Joshua as a love storythey just fit together, like two halves of a whole. But if they can reconcile their differences with Amars 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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