Our Arab
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A poignant, moving essay collection on the longing and hope of living in diaspora and what it means to be Palestinian today, from the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of You Exist Too Much. Fewer and fewer Palestinians living in the diaspora today have direct experiences of their homeland. How can they maintain a connection to a land so volatile, ever shrinking, and nearly unattainable? And how can a child of diaspora raise a child of diaspora, at a time when Palestinians throughout the world--particularly those living in their homeland--are more vulnerable than ever to censorship, violence, and erasure? Luminous, joyous, and evocative, Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope is Zaina Arafat's highly anticipated follow-up to her award-winning novel You Exist Too Much. In essays that move from Nablus to the Appalachian Mountains and from Amman to Manhattan, Arafat reveals "in a singularly compelling voice" (Leslie Jamison) that to live in diaspora is to exist in a state of longing: longing to be elsewhere, longing to return home, and longing to know what home is. A call to action and a call to love, Our Arab holds many truths at once--about society, identity, and family--and flashes with radical compassion, fierce pride, bitter loss, and righteous anger, forming an incredibly complex portrait of what it means to be Palestinian today. One of The Chicago Review of Books' Most Anticipated Books in Fall 2026 Goodreads October Memoir & Autobiography Pick Ad Astra's Most Anticipated Fall Reads Marie Claire's Must Read Books of October 2026 Featured in The Millions' Fall Book Preview Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated National News' Ten Books by Arab Authors to Look Out For Featured on The Emancipator's Antiracist Bookshelf One of Kobo's Best Biographies & Memoirs of October
Our Arab
$28.00
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780316584685
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Authors
- Zaina Arafat
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Published Date
- October 20, 2026
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 224
- Physical Info
- 0.87 in H x 8.48 in L x 5.77 in W (0.75 lb)
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