Brown Boy Pa

A groundbreaking new memoir which charts the author's journey from growing up in a working-class, immigrant family on the outskirts of Toronto to becoming foreign policy advisor to Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau. 

About the author

Omer Aziz is a lawyer, writer, and former foreign policy advisor in the administration of the Canadian Prime Minister. He was born to working-class parents of Pakistani origin in Toronto, Canada, and with the help of scholarships, became the first in his family to go to college in the West, later studying in Paris, at Cambridge University, and Yale Law School. Aziz has clerked for the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria and served as a foreign policy advisor in the government of Justin Trudeau. He has held residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell and has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, New York magazine, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and many other publications. He was most recently a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. Brown Boy is his first book.

Summary

A groundbreaking new memoir which charts the author's journey from growing up in a working-class, immigrant family on the outskirts of Toronto to becoming foreign policy advisor to Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

Product details

• Authors: Omer Aziz, Aziz Omer, Omer Aziz
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.12.2021, delayed
• EAN: 9781471190360
• ISBN: 978-1-4711-9036-0
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Humanities, art, music > History; History of Ideas, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, HISTORY / Social History, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Autobiography: historical, political and military