Ali belongs to a camel-herding family, in a Somali society riven by ancient clan rivalries. When rival clan members kill his father, Ali goes away to the nearby town. The ruling government, however, is a different clan, and soon Ali is arrested, imprisoned and tortured. He flees to Toronto, and forms relationships, but gets trapped in the clan culture that has followed him. (From Mawenzi House)

The Somali Camel Boy is available in Sept. 2019

Nur Abdi is an author living in Toronto. In the 1980s, when a civil war was raging in Somalia, he sought refuge in Canada, where he became a citizen and has lived ever since. The Somali Camel Boy is his first novel.