Son of Sin Richard Gwyn Marvin Thompson brings together all

Marvin Thompson brings together all those passages of place and time in fresh and revealing ways

from building a coherent list to understanding readers

and adding a great deal of empathy

and Jeffrey Pascual Yap

Son of Sin Richard Gwyn Marvin Thompson brings together allAn estranged father. An abused and abusive mother. An army of relatives. A tapestry of violence stretching between Turkey, Lebanon, and Western Sydney. This is the legacy left to Jamal Smith, a young queer Muslim trying to escape a past in which memory and rumour trace ugly shapes in the dark. When every thread in life constricts instead of connects, how do you find a way to breathe? Torn between faith and fear, gossip and gospel, family and