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You exist too much : a novel / Zaina Arafat.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF ARAF	Adult Fiction		Greenacre .	. Available .
AF ARAF	Adult Fiction		Riverwood .	. Available .

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ISBN	9780349701790 (paperback)
Name	Arafat, Zaina author.
Title	You exist too much : a novel / Zaina Arafat.
Published	London : Dialogue Books, 2020.
Published	©2020
Description	263 pages ; 24 cm
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.
Subjects	Palestinian American girls -- Fiction
Genre	Lesbian fiction
	Psychological fiction
	Bildungsromans
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Bildungsromans . Lesbian fiction . Palestinian American girls -- Fiction . Psychological fiction . See Also: Stream of consciousness fiction . Authors: Arafat, Zaina .