02933cim a2200469 i 4500 2791391448 TxAuBib 20250623120000.0 r 260609s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781696601610 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book 1696601614 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book MWT13341110 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Arafat, Zaina, author. You Exist Too Much [Hoopla] / Zaina Arafat. Unabridged. [United States : Highbridge Company, 2020. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 53 min.)) : digital. spw rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. Read by Zehra Jane Naqvi. 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 mother's 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. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla Audiobook. Bisexuals Fiction. Coming of Age Fiction. Literature Fiction. Sexual minorities Fiction. Women Fiction. Queer fiction. lcgft Romance fiction. lcgft Fiction. lcgft Audiobooks. Naqvi, Zehra Jane, reader. Hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13341110?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh3964 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/rcb_9781696601610_180.jpeg Cover image BSBPL