The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) Susan Lieu Yet seven decades passed before

Yet seven decades passed before it was found

Hudi needs to lose weight

the sinuous landscape

and the city falls

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) Susan Lieu Yet seven decades passed before"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