A review by bostonki
Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar

Did not finish book. Stopped at 22%.
I really wanted to like this book. I really did. Based on the blurb, I was expecting travel memoir. Alas, this was mostly just an essay memoir. Which is fine, except there is too much graphic sex and asexual shaming for my tastes. Jarrar’s holier-than-thou attitude rubbed me the wrong way, and the final straw was a sentence on page 159 of the ARC that reads, “When I arrive in Austin, I get nostalgic because I can’t afford to live there anymore. The airport is full of transplants, cowboy-boot-wearing women who don’t deserve to live there.” Who are you to decide who deserves what? Bye!
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