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“Delbar is raised in the Washington, D.C.”
“Meanwhile, Mansur, in his late twenties when we meet him, was born in Afghanistan.”
“The other queer figure in No God But Us is that of the child.”
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“A regular contributor to Literary Hub and the Intercept, he won a 2025 Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellowship to document how the second Trump administration’s cuts to public health funding were affecting HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ health in Africa, Europe and the Americas.”
“Bush José Esteban Muñoz No God But Us queer literature refugees Samuel R.”
“Sayed tells their stories in the first person in alternating chapters.”
“Thrasher The Sense of Brown War on Terror Steven W.”
“No God But Us is very much a book about Afghan refugees who are trying to forge a future amidst great displacement—and queer and trans Afghans play a vital role in nurturing their communities across generations.”
“Thrasher September 11, 2026 As I read Bobuq Sayed’s No God But Us in the waning days of the summer, I realized their debut novel paired well with Jose Esteban Muñoz’s final work, The Sense of Brown (2020) .”
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“While their lives might be set in motion by U.S.”
“The aunties play an enormous role in Delbar and Mansur’s outing (and, in ways both positive and painful, in their flight from America and Iran, respectively).”
“Thrasher, PhD, is the author of the critically acclaimed books The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide, which was longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and won Best in Literature at the 2022 POZ Awards, and of The Overseer Class: A Manifesto.”
“Delbar and Mansur meet at an organization called PeaceMeals; like much of No God But Us , PeaceMeals is riotously funny.”
“But they abound in queer refugee literature (think of Renaldo Arenas’s childhood in Before Night Falls ).”
“I watched the flames with my own eyes.”
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“* Though it is set in a country and society far from the United States, No God But Us is not wholly dissimilar from other queer novels which have found large followings in the US.”
“While trying to find other men like him, he briefly connects with Payam, his upper-class crush.”
“While brownness is a “place of fractured togetherness,” Muñoz notes, “Brown, it is important to mention, is not strictly the shared experience of harm between people and things; it is also the potential for the refusal and resistance to that oft-systemic harm.” Two forms of kin stand out in No God But Us : aunties and children.”
“And yet, despite America’s best efforts, in the midst of this horror, millions of artists, travelers, and inventors created love, and light.”