Love Is an Ex-Country : A Memoir Jewish a beautiful slice-of-life story that

a beautiful slice-of-life story that is This One Summer meets Ursula K

and insightful look into the lives of people who must reconcile the strictures of their culture and traditions with their own dreams and desires

With intellectual reference points that include Foucault and Freud

the odds of survival are even slimmer

Love Is an Ex-Country : A Memoir Jewish a beautiful slice-of-life story thatBy Randa Jarrar Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this "exuberant, defiant and introspective" memoir of a cross country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America (The New York Times Book Review). 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