You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/217127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Exist Too Much Author: Zaina Arafat Narrator: Zehra Jane Naqvi Format: mp3 Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins Release date: 06-30-20 Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 111 ratings Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: On 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 that flash between the US and the Middle East, we trace her progress from blushing teen to sought-after DJ and aspiring writer.