

You Exist Too Much
A Novel
Author: Zaina Arafat
Narrator: Zehra Jane Naqvi
Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 06/30/2020
Categories: Fiction, Romance, Lgbtq+, Literary Fiction
Synopsis
Told in vignettes that flash between the US and the Middle East, Zaina Arafat's debut novel traces her protagonist's progress from blushing teen to sought-after DJ and aspiring writer. In Brooklyn, she moves into an apartment with her first serious girlfriend and tries to content herself with their comfortable relationship. But soon her longings, so closely hidden during her teenage years, explode out into reckless romantic encounters. Her desire to thwart her own destructive impulses will eventually lead her to The Ledge, an unconventional treatment center that identifies her affliction as "love addiction." In this strange, enclosed society she will start to consider the unnerving similarities between her own internal traumas and divisions and those of the places that have formed her.
You Exist Too Much is a captivating story charting two of our most intense longings—for love, and a place to call home.