It’s a wild ride.īut there’s a lot more that makes the book itself unruly, too. Set during the vortex that was the Trump years, we follow Jarrar’s unruly body as she defies bans and borders and reflects on a lifetime of displacement, trauma, and love. Inspired by Egyptian dancer and actress Tahia Carioca’s 1946 road trip, and with her son now an adult and a sabbatical ahead of her, Jarrar, a writer and professor of creative writing, leads us on a path to sex dungeons, prisons, and the home in Connecticut that shaped much of her youth. The queer Muslim writer’s travelogue (Catapult, February 2021) takes us on a series of crisscrossing trips starting in Fresno, California, in 2016. The road trip of Randa Jarrar’s Love Is an Ex-Country is a little different. The concept of the Great American Road Trip is cemented in national consciousnesses, from families touring Route 66 and visiting sites like Mount Rushmore to Beatniks racing across the country on their psychedelic escapades.
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