"But it's really the same skill set from being a young person who is trying to figure out their way through the world and what's popular around them, and basically what I do now for a living." "I spend a lot of my time as a culture writer thinking through why certain things are resonating with people," he said.
#The books of elsewhere series
His love of aughts-era TV series The O.C. gets its own chapter, while wrestling, nu metal and country music all receive loving nods throughout Son of Elsewhere as well. LISTEN | Elamin Abdelmahmoud on Here and NowĦ:54 Here and Now 's Book Club with Elamin AbdelmahmoudĪnd that's what pop culture did for him, Abdelmahmoud noted - music, film, television and books offered him a way into understanding life in the West that continues to impact his work today.
I wanted to return to that emotional landscape - what was it that made me want to hide these parts of myself? And what is owed to those identities now that I've realized that I shouldn't have done that? This book was born as an attempt at an apology for that." "There's this sensitive age where you feel a pressure to disappear or not be noticed as much as possible.
For me, that was a time where I felt like I had to put a whole bunch of identities on the shelf," Abdelmahmoud told CBC Books. "These are ideas I've been trying to sit with and work from for some time - specifically, revisiting the period of time when I first came to this country from Sudan when I was 12.
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