Love Is an Ex-Country: A Memoir PB_Gift_Guide From the New York Times

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and The House of the Spirits

urging readers to advocate for those who are disenfranchised and forgotten by society and the system

The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic

For anyone who feels overwhelmed and unfulfilled

Love Is an Ex-Country: A Memoir PB_Gift_Guide From the New York TimesQueer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat femme. 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 Egypt, and