{"product_id":"our-arab","title":"Our Arab \/\/ (Pre-order, Sep 29 2026)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Exist Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf the many Palestinian Americans in the diaspora, few have direct experiences or memories of their ancestral land, if any at all. So how does one maintain a connection to a home so volatile, ever-shrinking, and nearly unattainable? And how does a child of diaspora raise a child of diaspora, at a time when Palestinians throughout the world--particularly those living in their homeland--are vulnerable to massive violence?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Arab\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Zaina Arafat's highly anticipated follow-up to her critically acclaimed novel\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Exist Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e, with essays that coalesce around the fundamental characteristic of living in diaspora, the state of longing: longing to be elsewhere, longing to return home, and longing to know what home is. This is a book that holds many truths at once about society, identity, and family, filled with flashes of radical compassion and anger and forming an incredibly complex portrait of what it means to be Palestinian today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZaina Arafat\u003c\/strong\u003e is an LGBTQ Arab-American fiction and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Exist Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which won a 2021 Lambda Literary Award and was named Roxane Gay's favorite book of 2020. Arafat's stories and essays have appeared in publications including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harper's Bazaar, BuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, VICE, Guernica, Literary Hub, and NPR. In recognition of her work, she was awarded the Arab Women\/Migrants from the Middle East fellowship at Jack Jones Literary Arts and named a Champion of Pride by The Advocate. Arafat teaches writing at Barnard College, The School of the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and Long Island University Post, and has led workshops for dreamers and DACA recipients through the Writer's Guild Initiative. Arafat holds an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an M.A. from Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Little Brown and Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: September 29, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 224\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9780316584685\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e8.3 in H | 5.5 in W\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBISAC Categories: Biography \u0026amp; Memoir, Literary Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Zaina Arafa","offers":[{"title":"(Pre-order, Sep 29 2026) Hardcover","offer_id":48077351026923,"sku":"9780316584685","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/9780316584685.jpg?v=1775861110","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/our-arab","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}