“Who was there to answer to?” This is the question posed by one of two narrators in Bobuq Sayed’s novel No God But Us (Ultimo, 2026). It is a question also suggested by the novel’s humanist title and Sayed’s dedication “to the transgressors of borders”. In their first full-length fiction, Sayed dreams of a world where the borders are, if not erased, at least made more permeable, and we are no longer answerable to the enforcers of those arbitrary lines.
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Gay rating: 5/5 for queer characters, sex, relationships and themes.
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