The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) Susan Lieu Macon Nowakowski

Macon Nowakowski

wonderfully astray in this cheeky and charming Victorian tale

Will she fight for the achievement of the century and the love of a lifetime

and the city falls

Was Gardner a good man who made bad decisions as the victim of injury and circumstance

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) Susan Lieu Macon Nowakowski"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