Guapa portrays a gay man stgglg wh shame amid the wreckage of a failed uprisg an unnamed Arab untry. The thor explas how this ‘fluent and passnate’ but is and isn’t his own story
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”Guapa, scribed the Guardian as “immensely readable … fluent, passnate and emotnally hont”, follows Rasa, a young gay man livg an unnamed Arab untry, over a sgle day the recent aftermath of a failed polil ’s grandmother Teta has jt disvered him bed wh his boyiend Taymour, who tri to “play by the l, one foot and one foot out”. Moments of his past play out as he mak his way around the cy on a day that he knows will end wh Taymour’s weddg, to a mutual and unspectg female a gay Arab man, Haddad is fascated by shame, but was also once plagued wh : growg up he felt ashamed for not fillg the ial male role.