You Exist Too Much By Zaina Arafat Material:Soft Cover I need this girl to

I need this girl to like me

When she was six

Max and Darcy

Sun Aranya just wants a stable job so she can care for her ailing grandfather

You Exist Too Much By Zaina Arafat Material:Soft Cover I need this girl toOn a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12 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