Love is an Ex-Country

'Funny, fierce, and full of joy and pain.' –Refinery29 'One of the finest writers of her generation.' -Laila Lalami Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all these things. In this provocative memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unravelling and hostile world. Told as a road trip across the United Stated of America, this is Randa's bold and frank personal story: a Palestinian daughter shamed about her weight, her background, and her decision to become a teenage mother as she rebels against her abusive family and the expectations others have of her.