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- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9781646220595
- Book Title
- You Exist Too Much : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- CATAPULT
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Lgbt / Lesbian, Lgbt / Gay, Literary, Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 9.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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A "provocative and seductive debut" of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she endeavors to lead an authentic life ( O, The Oprah Magazine ). On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-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. In Brooklyn, she moves into an apartment with her first serious girlfriend and tries to content herself with their comfortable relationship. But soon her longings, so closely hidden during her teenage years, explode out into reckless romantic encounters and obsessions with other people. Her desire to thwart her own destructive impulses will eventually lead her to The Ledge, an unconventional treatment center that identifies her affliction as "love addiction." In this strange, enclosed society she will start to consider the unnerving similarities between her own internal traumas and divisions and those of the places that have formed her. Opening up the fantasies and desires of one young woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities, You Exist Too Much is a captivating story charting two of our most intense longings--for love, and a place to call home.
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Publisher
CATAPULT
ISBN-10
1646220595
ISBN-13
9781646220595
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17050098613
Product Key Features
Book Title
You Exist Too Much : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Lgbt / Lesbian, Lgbt / Gay, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ps3601.R33y68 2020
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"Thankfully we have moved beyond tedious questions about the 'likability' of fictional women, because the most interesting characters rarely are at all times. Arafat's heroine is no exception, but the author writes her with great tenderness and just enough self-aware dark humor to allow readers to become invested in this young woman's efforts to make herself whole." --Erin Keane, Salon "At once complicated and engaging, this is the kind of debut novel that announces the arrival of a powerful new author who, besides writing beautifully, has a lot to say." --Gabino Iglesias, NPR "This story about love, identity, gender and family is brilliantly written and questions the effects of maternal love." -- Good Morning America, "At once complicated and engaging, this is the kind of debut novel that announces the arrival of a powerful new author who, besides writing beautifully, has a lot to say." --Gabino Iglesias, NPR "This story about love, identity, gender and family is brilliantly written and questions the effects of maternal love." -- Good Morning America "[A] provocative and seductive debut . . . Novels like these don't exist enough." O, The Oprah Magazine "Thankfully we have moved beyond tedious questions about the 'likability' of fictional women, because the most interesting characters rarely are at all times. Arafat's heroine is no exception, but the author writes her with great tenderness and just enough self-aware dark humor to allow readers to become invested in this young woman's efforts to make herself whole." --Erin Keane, Salon "As a narrative with an insistence on revisiting ruptures in memory, and unpacking the trauma therein, Arafat's novel is a direct resistance to pinkwashing and other homo-nationalistic ideologies, one that centers Palestinian memory and generously unpacks the underlying sociopolitical contexts of Palestinian society for non-Palestinian readers." --George Abraham, Public Books " You Exist Too Much gets desire at a deep level: where it comes from, how it pushes and tugs, and how it's virtually never just about who it's about. As the narrator pinballs from one disastrous affair to the next, we get more than the chronicle of a young full-blown love addict, but a keen study in how our wants are bound to place, race, gender, religion, psychology, and family. Zaina Arafat speaks for the persistently hungry." Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens "What a breath of fresh air! Zaina Arafat takes a familiar figurethe restless, womanizing narrator of many a canonical noveland reimagines it to mordant and delightful effect. Her queer, Palestinian American, love-addict protagonist is pining mostly for a sense of belonging and purpose. She's a deeply relatable character who beautifully conveys the anguish of trying to figure out a life between categories of various kinds. You Exist Too Much is a moving, irreverent, darkly entertaining novel about the agony of family, the mysteries of romantic love, and the painful work of learning where we stop and others begin. Arafat is a true original." Nina Renata Aron, author of Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls
Lccn
2019-952218
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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