Bibliograph

You exist too much, a novel, Zaina Arafat

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You exist too much, a novel, Zaina Arafat

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

You exist too much

Oclc number

1119481149

Responsibility statement

Zaina Arafat

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother's response only intensifies a sense of shame: 'You exist too much,' she tells her daughter. Told in vignettes that flash between the U.S. and the Middle East--from New York to Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine--Zaina Arafat's debut novel traces her protagonist's progress from blushing teen to sought-after DJ and aspiring writer"--Dust jacket flap

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