You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat [in Booklist]
25 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Arab American, Fiction, Repost
The “demarcation” begins over a wardrobe malfunction: a 12-year-old girl, improperly, according to the local men, dressed in shorts, arrives at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem with her mother and uncle. Exchanging the forbidden shorts for her uncle’s “baggy trousers” gives her a...