The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) Jake Parker Welcome to the most tumultuous

Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century

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The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) Jake Parker Welcome to the most tumultuous"Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination." NPR From National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction comes a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty three year old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and "the neighborhood homosexual," Raja relishes