You exist too much : a novel
Zaina Arafat
Bok Engelsk 2020
engelsk
| Utgitt | New York : Catapult , 2020
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| Omfang | 272 sider
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| Opplysninger | On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12ﾓyearﾓold Palestinianﾓ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ﾙs response only intensifies a sense of shame: ﾜYou exist too much,ﾝ she tells her daughter. Told in vignettes that flash between the U.S. and the Middle Eastﾔfrom New York to Jordan, Lebanon, and PalestineﾔZaina Arafatﾙs debut novel traces her protagonistﾙs progress from blushing teen to soughtﾓ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 ﾜlove addiction.ﾝ 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ﾔfor love, and a place to call home. Omtalen er utarbeidet av forlaget.
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| ISBN | 9781948226509 : innbundet
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