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ISBN:	1948226502 (ISBN13: 9781948226509)
Edition Language:	English

You Exist Too Much

Zaina Arafat

Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 36 Users | 24 Reviews

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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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Title	:	You Exist Too Much
Author	:	Zaina Arafat
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	Expected publication: June 9th 2020 by Catapult
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. GLBT. Queer

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Ratings: 4.03 From 36 Users | 24 Reviews

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I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.This was absolutely lovely. I couldn't put it down. The prose is so immersive- you just get sucked into the story and can't leave. The vignettes move slowly, but they layer on each other so beautifully to give you the sensation of when you wake up from a vivid dream and can't shake it for the rest of the day. The description of border checkpoints and the cruelty of Israeli occupation is so sharply rendered, and adds so

Its always frustrating when a blurb promises one thing but the book does not follow thru. You Exist intrigued me because it was seemingly a story of culture clash, a young American of Palestinian descent who struggles between the expectations of her Arab heritage and her quest to come into her own, an out and proud bisexual woman. Unfortunately, 80% of the book does nothing of the sort. The novel is told in first person present tense and reads like a journal that mostly details the mcs college

YOU EXIST TOO MUCH is for anyone who has been labeled as such, anyone who feels their life bumping against the edges of societal expectations, anyone who (I'll say it) has ever judged someone else for their "too-muchness." Arafat's unnamed narrator engages vibrantly with life in all of its complexity, moving not only between multiple relationships and geographies, but also between emotional, physical, and intellectual ways of understanding her decisions. As a habitual lover of rom-coms and happy

You Exist Too Much follows a Palestinian-American woman navigating through conflicting the cultural and religious ideals of her upbringing, in conflict with an eating disorder, love addiction and sexual identity. The beginning of the novel held my attention and it was well-written. However, I was left wanting more. I felt there was very little character development and at times the story jumped around too much, leaving me wanting more from multiple story-lines/scenes. I was hoping the book would

Its always frustrating when a blurb promises one thing but the book does not follow thru. You Exist intrigued me because it was seemingly a story of culture clash, a young American of Palestinian descent who struggles between the expectations of her Arab heritage and her quest to come into her own, an out and proud bisexual woman. Unfortunately, 80% of the book does nothing of the sort. The novel is told in first person present tense and reads like a journal that mostly details the mcs college

Our unnamed Palestinian-American narrator, after years of being told by her mother that she "exists too much" in her feelings and desires, checks herself into a treatment center for love addiction. During her journey of self-discovery, we see her in all of her imperfect glory: wanting to be loved, desiring the wrong people, following passions down dangerous roads, and struggling to unpack her fraught relationship with her mother. Arafat's writing is visceral and honest, and although the

Maybe I could love her from a distance and keep myself intact.