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01 Love is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar

CATAPULT

CALIFORNIA TO CONNECTICUT

You haven’t read this American road trip story before. Written during the Trump years, this memoir by Jarrar, a queer Muslim Arab American woman, tackles systemic racism, domestic violence, sexuality, trauma, body image and more as it crisscrosses the country with plenty of humor and heart to break

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