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Lädt ... You Exist Too Much: A Novel (2021. Auflage)von Zaina Arafat (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 2020. Uneven, but readable. The protagonist is a closeted, Palestinian-American woman, with a beautiful, but cruel, narcissistic mother. She’s been to recovery for anorexia and in the course of the story she spends a month at a treatment center for love/sex addiction. I didn’t see much healing result. She still had many and overlapping relationships after treatment. I guess I didn’t think the character progressed enough. Also it seemed to suffer from telling the reader what the emotions of the characters were rather than showing through their actions or dialogue sometimes. I wish there had been more about being Palestinian because that was really interesting, but it was much downplayed in favor of her obsessing about love and sex and her mother. Needed better editing I think. Somewhat lackluster. ( ) The book had so much potential but it was so disappointing. Nothing really happened, there was zero character development despite that being the entire premise of the book, and it also had so many harmful tropes and plot points. I didn't like any of the characters and they all felt pretty 2D, even though I could see the effort to dimensionalize the main character. I really wanted to love this book but it fell very short. Featured in a blog post at https://booksbeyondbinaries.blog/2020/05/11/and-were-back/ 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 relationships and even seeks treatment for it. I can see how others would find her unlikable, but I found myself wanting the narrator to overcome her demons and find love. I fell into reading easily with this book. I loved the style of the prose and felt the flashbacks really helped you better understand the narrator and her behavior. As someone who hasn’t read many books featuring Arab characters (and I should be better about that) reading this book opened my eyes to parts of a culture that I knew nothing about. 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 retreat for her "love addiction" during which her earlier life is reviewed piecemeal. There are definite moments of wanting to hit the protagonist and others upside the head. I found the flow somewhat fouled and some of the way of overlooking some consequences of choices off putting. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mothers response only intensifies a sense of shame: You exist too much, she tells her daughter.Told in vignettes that flash between the US and the Middle East, Zaina Arafat's debut novel traces her protagonist's progress from blushing teen to sought-after DJ and aspiring writer. In Brooklyn, she moves into an apartment with her first serious girlfriend and tries to content herself with their comfortable relationship. But soon her longings, so closely hidden during her teenage years, explode out into reckless romantic encounters. Her desire to thwart her own destructive impulses will eventually lead her to The Ledge, an unconventional treatment center that identifies her affliction as love addiction. In this strange, enclosed society she will start to consider the unnerving similarities between her own internal traumas and divisions and those of the places that have formed her.You Exist Too Much is a captivating story charting two of our most intense longings--for love, and a place to call home. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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