Status Updates From The Foghorn Echoes

"There is a beauty to their gathering; it fills them with pride."
242 and 243 have made me cry. The parallels between the protests against Assad and pride parades really brought the tears

Like, it's both sad and not at the same time. It's sad because "we already told him that" indicates that he's been dead to them for a while, likely bc he was gay and ran off. But not sad as well because this is freeing in a sense; Wassim no longer has to worry about what his dad thinks or if his dad is looking for him. This is almost a rebirth

""Would you please at least tell him I'm dead?" I said.
"You silly thing." She smiled. "We already told him that.""
oof that hit me really bad.

"Just one more high and I can handle the low. One more cloud and I'll be standing free in the sun."

Yeah no Wassim is better than me, bc you've got me so fcked up. And if Wassim had drowned?
holy shit I feel like I just got punched in the face

HOLY SHIT- WHATTTTT? Hussam's and Wassim's différent versions of the story...

I love the historical contexts in here, too.

""Stop talking shit to yourself...The voice in your head should be the nicest voice you hear.""

while I think both characters are interesting to follow, I am more interested in Wassim's POV more

"The government official announced them husband and father-in-law..."
fck me dude

this would be considered literary fiction, I think

"I would make this house a home. But I'm a man without a ladder."

pop culture references

ok so in 2003, Hussam and Wassim are 15
in 2014, they're 26

I like the transition from third person to first person between 2003 and 2014

HOLY SHIT-

"Damascus was a rippled city that ricocheted history back at its people, and every era was marked on its map."

"Children shouldn't know the horror of war, but Hussam was old enough by now."

“To those who took to the sea and those who the sea took.”