A Place Beyond the Heart

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A Place Beyond The Heart is a collection of short stories exploring issues at the intersection of war and love, terror and disorder, as well as identity, gender, and sexuality. Each story captures the lives of people facing personal, societal and transcultural challenges. The settings are diverse, ranging from a battlefield, a jailhouse, a TV interview room, a café, an airport, a room that becomes a ?burial space?, and intangible rooms in times and spaces animated by science and technology. In these physical and incorporeal spaces taking the reader from the United Kingdom to Canada, Nigeria, Sudan, and Syria, to name a few, a young African man leaves home for sojourn abroad and returns home a woman, a young man methodically prepares his ?burial space? in his room in a foreign land far away from family and friends, a bereaved father and husband throws himself into a distant war to tell personal stories of its impact at home and abroad, a retired British Freelance Journalist struggles to capture in beautiful colours the agonies of a 13-year old migrant in detention, the voice and words of a Canadian teenager soothe a fifteen year old boy struggling with his sexuality as he slips out of consciousness in a different continent, a virtual meeting between two young albino friends across two continents becomes a moment of confrontation and discovery, of struggles with colour, identity, beauty, bullying and discrimination, and in the title story, a work of art ? a Caucasian husband's grotesque carving of his unrealizable ideal of a woman's physique ? becomes the focus of an ideological battle of wits when his Black wife refuses to idolize the sculpture in the burlesque fashion to which he has become accustomed.