True True Story of Raja the Gullible HC

True True Story of Raja the Gullible HCWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination.NPR From the 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

with rights sold to over a dozen countries and a TV adaptation underway

New York Times Bestseller • Barnes & Noble 2025 Book of the Year • Boston Globe Best Book of the Year • National Indie Bestseller • Top Ten Indie Next Pick • Indigo Heather’s Pick

Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding―the anniversary

and passion consuming Gabriel’s new covert life

a fictional tour de force

and Lew Welch

and that’s not good for any of us

Marin County’s history is captured through photographs showcasing its pivotal role in California’s early development

to the creation of breathtaking desserts

or self-interest

We Do Not Part tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter in Korean history—“[A] masterpiece” (The Boston Globe)

and the complete moral poverty that brings them here