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On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-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 - and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother's response only intensifies a sense of shame: 'You exist too much,' she tells her daughter.

Throughout the novel, our narrator is caught in a cycle of toxic relationships, always falling for the next person who crosses her path, searching for everything to be satisfied by someone other than herself. Eventually, she turns to rehab for love addiction.

Told in vignettes that flit between the US and the Middle East - from New York to Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine - You Exist Too Much is a coming-of-age novel which traces its protagonist from lost teenager to sought-after DJ and aspiring writer.

Opening up the fantasies and desires of one woman caught between cultural, religious and sexual identities, this captivating novel charts two of our most intense longings: for love, and a place to call home.