Zaina Arafat is a LGBTQ Palestinian–American writer based in Brooklyn. Her debut novel, You Exist Too Much, was selected as an Indie Next Pick for June, and has been praised by O Oprah Magazine, Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, NPR, LitHub and Good Morning America/5(). Withholding vulnerable information was a habit born of survival. I’d been lulled into letting my guard down before, only to later regret it, the admissions used against me as I bore her wrath.”. ― Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much. 3 likes. · The main character in Zaina Arafat's You Exist Too Much is a nesting doll of otherness, and her journey from year-old Palestinian American Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.
Kelli: Hello and welcome back to Queer Girl Book Club!I'm your host, Kelli. Just kidding, this is a blog post. This month we're talking about You Exist Too Much, the debut novel by Zaina bltadwin.ru story follows a Palestinian-American young woman as she navigates her twenties. YOU EXIST TOO MUCH. by Zaina Arafat ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 9, A particularly bad breakup leads a young woman to reexamine her past and how it shapes her identity and her desires. The unnamed narrator of this novel is a "love addict.". What this means in practical terms is that she treats her partners terribly, engages in a lot of. Zaina Arafat joined Mondoweiss Associate Editor Allison Deger to discuss their debut novel, "You Exist Too Much".Zaina is an LGBTQ Arab/Muslim-American ficti.
In Zaina Arafat’s debut novel You Exist Too Much, released on June 9, the unnamed narrator—a queer Palestinian American woman—describes romantic love as “the homeland that validated my existence.”. This is a novel that draws out the ways that love can rupture and reform an existence, while also posing questions about how to love when love has been refused. "You Exist Too Much is for anyone who has been labelled 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. You Exist Too Much Doesn't Do Enough Zaina Arafat’s debut novel You Exist Too Much reads more like a personal memoir recounted by (if I’m not mistaken) an unnamed first-person narrator whose namelessness suggests we already know her. This novel offers an unrepresented voice in literature in the story of a Palestinian-American queer woman who presumably struggles to accept her own dichotomous identities and carry on successful romantic relationships due to unresolved tension with her mother.
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