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Title details for Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar - Available

Love Is an Ex-Country

by Randa Jarrar
Randa Jarrar
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Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this provocative memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America.
Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called "politically incorrect" (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times). As an American raised for a time in Egypt, and finding herself captivated by the story of a celebrated Egyptian belly dancer's journey across the United States in the 1940s, she sets off from her home in California to her parents' in Connecticut.
Coloring this road trip are journeys abroad and recollections of a life lived with daring. Reclaiming her autonomy after a life of survival—domestic assault as a child, and later, as a wife; threats and doxxing after her viral tweet about Barbara Bush—Jarrar offers a bold look at domestic violence, single motherhood, and sexuality through the lens of the punished-yet-triumphant body. On the way, she schools a rest-stop racist, destroys Confederate flags in the desert, and visits the Chicago neighborhood where her immigrant parents first lived.
Hailed as "one of the finest writers of her generation" (Laila Lalami), Jarrar delivers a euphoric and critical, funny and profound memoir that will speak to anyone who has felt erased, asserting: I am here. I am joyful.

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  • Release date

    February 2, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9780593413753
      • File size: 166463 KB
      • Duration: 05:46:47

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Throughout this absorbing memoir-in-essays, there are moments when you can hear laughter beneath author Randa Jarrar's narration. Her warm, no-nonsense tone adds levitiy to the heavy subject matter, which includes domestic abuse and sexual violence. But Jarrar's laughing voice, sly asides, and obvious affection for her friends and lovers also highlight what makes this audiobook so memorable: her exuberance, self-love, and pride in her identity as a fat, queer Arab- American woman. She writes about being a poor single mother, surviving an abusive marriage, discovering connection and safety in kinky sex, and the racism she faces as a woman of Arab descent in America. Layered and insightful, sometimes harrowing and sometimes funny, this is a powerful audiobook made even better by Jarrar's vulnerable yet playful narration. L.S. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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