The Foghorn Echoes is a probing and triumphant story, deftly rendered with depth, compassion, lightness, and joy.” They grapple with the consequences of their identities, attempt to quench their longings and loneliness, and find and make peace within themselves against the backdrop of war, migration, queerness, and the echoes of their particular histories. Danny Ramadan introduces us to Hussam and Wassim, granting us intimate access to their desires, flaws, secrets, failures, and triumphs. “A heart-wrenching and gorgeous tale that spans across borders and time. This is a beautiful novel, written by a once hurt child and loved and deeply admired by another-me.” They haven’t learned yet how to handle pain.’ So says a wise ghost in Danny Ramadan’s sweeping and mesmerising story that spans time and mortal space so expertly and elegantly. “‘Treat your thoughts like hurt children. Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise 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.”

Danny Ramadan is a gifted, sensitive excavator of the things that break people and put them back together, the past as weight and lightness. “ 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. Reviews *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE* Masterfully crafted and richly detailed, The Foghorn Echoes is a gripping novel about how to carve out home in the midst of war, and how to move forward when the war is within yourself. The past continues to reverberate through the present as Hussam and Wassim come face to face with heartache, history, drag queens, border guards, and ghosts both literal and figurative.

Taking shelter in a deserted villa, he unearths the previous owner’s buried secrets while reckoning with his own. Wassim is living on the streets of Damascus, having abandoned a wife and child and a charade he could no longer keep up. Sponsored as a refugee by a controlling older man, Hussam is living an openly gay life in Vancouver, where he attempts to quiet his demons with sex, drugs, and alcohol. Ten years later, Hussam and Wassim are still struggling to find peace and belonging. In an instant, the course of their lives is changed forever. A blooming romance leads to a tragic accident when Hussam’s father catches him acting on his feelings for his best friend, Wassim. 'A sweeping and mesmerizing story that spans time and mortal space so expertly and elegantly.' -Alan CummingĪ deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout that ripples through their adult lives. *SHORTLISTED FOR A 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE*

The foghorn echoes by danny ramadan