'A book filled with love, from and for his own family, for the region, Palestine and queer culture'
Guardian

'Luminous, moving, and achingly beautiful'
Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King

Tareq's grandmother fled Haifa in 1948, as Zionist militias seized the city. In the late 1970s she escaped civil war in Beirut with her daughter. The family eventually settled in Amman, but a young Tareq still felt trapped: by cultures of silence, by a sense of not belonging, by a growing awareness that he was in love with his childhood best friend.

Both a coming-of-age tale and a love story, Fire in Every Direction is an astounding memoir of loss and estrangement, family inheritance and the awakening of political consciousness.

'I love this book'
Judith Butler, author of Who's Afraid of Gender?

'A powerful memoir of queer and Palestinian reckoning'
Sarah Schulman, author of The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity

"A book that is both intimate and fiercely political . . . for all the tragedies, however, it is ultimately a book filled with love, from and for his own family, for the region, Palestine and queer culture - a call for "an imagined future where none of us must cover, or absent, a part of ourselves to live"'" - Guardian

"In this poignant autobiography, queer Palestinian writer and activist Baconi tenderly explores identity, nationality, and family history" - The Millions

"Intensely intimate" - Irish Times

"In Fire in Every Direction, we not only see how the oppression of a people has affected one Palestinian family, but how oppression in all forms - colonialism, patriarchy, homophobia, to name a few - creates dishonesty and masks within all of us. Tareq Baconi offers us a love letter, a blueprint on how to craft a life that questions the present, dreaming a better future in the process. By reading this beautifully honest memoir, we can learn to shed what must be shed in order to regain an allegiance toward justice, toward freedom, toward a liberation for all. Baconi has shown me that revolutions begin in the self; I am forever changed after reading this book" - Javier Zamora, author of Solito