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Book review: One Last Drink at Guapa by Saleem Haddad

 If being gay is complicated, being gay in West Asia is even more so. This book is an ode to disillusionment — personal, political, national — yet written in prose that soars and tugs at the emotions. Haddad’s hero Rasa is back in his unnamed country after doing his undergraduate studies in the U.S., full…

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