About the author
Rabih Alameddine is a Lebanese-American novelist and painter whose fiction moves among Beirut, migration, queer life, war, art, and the unreliable abundance of family stories. His novels often allow digression to become their form of truth.
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) compresses national and personal history into a crowded Beirut apartment. Raja's account never fully escapes the mother who has her own version.
Where to start
Start with The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) for a tragicomic family novel about a gay teacher, his mother, and six decades in Lebanon.
