The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

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The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)"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

Her name is Eli

000-mile migration of one of Earth’s most amazing animals—the Arctic tern

Sara has just landed at LAX

to laugh and to grieve

And the cost could be just as deadly as the monsters that prowl the Winter Woods

Welcome to a world of quiet magic

he is recognized as one of the true geniuses of English acoustic music

but he just might surprise her

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who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11

and that they must always be tended with knowledge and vigilance

unable to move past her grief