What I Know About You

LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERSSTARRED REVIEWS INKIRKUS,BOOKLISTANDQUILL & QUIREA heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo.As a boy in 1960s Cairo, Tarek knows that his entire life is written in advance. Hell be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eyes of his mother and his sister, he starts to do just that until Ali enters his life and turns it upside down. The two men, from very different worlds, embark on an unsayable relationship that threatens to tear apart Tareks family.Years later, as Tarek is living a solitary life in Montreal, someone starts writing about him and to him, piecing together a past he wants only to forget. But who is the writer of this tale? And will he figure it out in time?A bestseller in its original Quebec edition, and the recipient of several awards, including the Prix Femina des Lycens,What I Know About You is poised to be an international sensation.This novel is a searing love story that moves between Egypt and Montral, that shifts between hearts, highlighting the sacrifices the characters feel they have to make for the ones they love. Romantic, surprising, mesmerizing, and so devastating,What I Know About Youexamines the terrible costs of family secrets and toxic shame. Suzette Mayr, author ofThe Sleeping Car Porter