You Exist Too Much : A Novel (Hardcover)

from brangwinn

There's a lot going on in this novel, it's the story of a Palestinian-American girl who is gay. It's the story of how she came to travel the world looking for her identity. She is stuck between cultures and religion. She knows that her duty is to get married, but she cannot do that and be true to...

from brookiexlicious

The novel is non linear, so passages set in the current will be sandwiched between flashbacks of the past. Our narrator describes her volatile relationship with her mother, and her struggles as a Palestinian American. She's often reckless. She has the tendency to cling to dysfunctional relationsh...

from RidgewayGirl

There is a lot going on here. The unnamed narrator is Palestinian-American who spends her summers with family in Amman, Jordan and in Nablus, on the West Bank. Her parents are immigrants, her mother is unpredictable and possibly mentally ill. She's bisexual and struggles with various self-destruc...

from quondame

A somewhat raw time sliced life of a young woman overshadowed by a dramatically attractive mother whom she cannot please in any case and in particular in the matter of her bisexuality. The present concerns her reaction to the failure of her current relationship and her choice to go to therapeutic...

from bookwyrmm

A tad artsy, even though I don't think it was meant to be that way.