On the way, she schools a rest-stop racist, destroys Confederate flags in the desert, and visits the Chicago neighborhood where her immigrant parents first lived.
Reclaiming her autonomy after a life of survival-domestic assault as a child, and later, as a wife threats and doxxing after her viral tweet about Barbara Bush-Jarrar offers a bold look at domestic violence, single motherhood, and sexuality through the lens of the punished-yet-triumphant body. As an American raised for a time in Egypt, and finding herself captivated by the story of a celebrated Egyptian belly dancer’s journey across the United States in the 1940s, she sets off from her home in California to her parents’ in Connecticut.Ĭoloring this road trip are journeys abroad and recollections of a life lived with daring. Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called “politically incorrect” (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times).
An “exuberant, defiant and introspective” memoir of a cross-country road trip that explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America-from the award-winning author of Him, Me, Muhammad Ali ( The New York Times Book Review).
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