{"product_id":"our-arab","title":"Our Arab","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou Exist Too Much\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFewer 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLuminous, joyous, and evocative, \u003ci\u003eOur Arab: On Longing, Belonging, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand Hope\u003c\/i\u003e is Zaina Arafat's highly anticipated follow-up to her award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eYou Exist Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA call to action and a call to love, \u003ci\u003eOur Arab\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of The Chicago Review of Books' Most Anticipated Books in Fall 2026\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46156756156463,"sku":"9780316584685","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/2855\/6847\/files\/imageloader_a1f32b3a-b8d7-4529-8d33-3d2b895f108c.jpg?v=1789045335","url":"https:\/\/tssbooks.com\/products\/our-arab","provider":"tssbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}