The Door He Chose to Open

He was eight years old when he started narrating his own life from a Toronto curb, watching puddles run toward the storm drain. Decades on, Mohamed Hammoud’s award-winning story “Reclaiming My Name” became the seed of a memoir arriving this October. In this Threshold conversation, he talks about the name he set down as a child, the one he’s still learning to carry without shaking, and what it costs to decide which chapters of a life deserve to exist on the page.