You Exist Too Much -- Zaina Arafat, Paperback Rover and Speck If any of this sounds

If any of this sounds like you

she was single-minded in the pursuit of two things: riding a bike and expressing herself in the written word

Her life of surviving could've never prepared her for this

however makeshift or impromptu its design

Artists who Lianne had admired soon admired her

You Exist Too Much -- Zaina Arafat, Paperback Rover and Speck If any of this soundsA "provocative and seductive debut" of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she endeavors to lead an authentic life (O, The Oprah Magazine). On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12 year old Palestinian American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden,