Love is an Ex-Country - Hardcover

Randa Jarrar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1913207420 ISBN 13: 9781913207427

Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

'Funny, fierce, and full of joy and pain.' --Refinery29

'One of the finest writers of her generation.' -Laila Lalami

Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all these things. In this provocative memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unravelling and hostile world.

Told as a road trip across the United Stated of America, this is Randa's bold and frank personal story: a Palestinian daughter shamed about her weight, her background, and her decision to become a teenage mother as she rebels against her abusive family and the expectations others have of her.

About this title

About the Author

Randa Jarrar's work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Buzzfeed. Her first book, A Map of Home, won a Hopwood Award and an Arab-American Book Award. Her second book, Him, Me, Muhammad Ali, won an American Book Award, a PEN Oakland Award, and a Story Prize Spotlight Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913207420
• ISBN 13: 9781913207427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292