{"product_id":"books-guest-privileges-by-gaar-adams","title":"Guest Privileges","description":"An intimate and illuminating account of queer lives and migration, homemaking and community in the Gulf, from a brilliant new voice in narrative non-fiction  **LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE** **A 2026 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS FINALIST**   'An eye-opening tour de force' ALEX ESPINOZA 'Exhilarating' SUSAN ORLEAN 'Tender and insightful' MOHAMED TONSY  Upon moving to the Gulf States – where penalties for queer acts include deportation, imprisonment, torture and death – Gaar Adams wants to understand why LGBTQ+ migrants might choose to live amid such peril. He begins riskily gathering interviews outside the tightly controlled state media, leading with what he thinks is a simple question:  Isn't it harder for you to make a life here?  But as unforgettable residents share a kaleidoscope of stories – from uproarious Filipino salon workers throwing secret drag parties to a courageous Pakistani farmhand who helps his compatriots smuggle themselves across borders – deeper questions and fault lines begin to emerge alongside the halting steps into Gaar’s own clandestine relationship.  Weaving intimate and illuminating memoir with unprecedented reportage, Guest Privileges is a decade-long journey of dislocation – not just through the Gulf States, but into the very nature of home, belonging and how we form a life and community.  'Vividly reported and luminously reflective' NADIA OWUSU 'I was captivated and carried' ADAM ZMITH ‘Adams gives a voice to a queer community we hear much about, but little from…offering hope in a world witnessing the concerted rollback of queer rights' HUGO GREENHALGH","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670681542929,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781529933604.jpg?v=1781512067","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-guest-privileges-by-gaar-adams","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}