True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) but who now seems to

but who now seems to want to be friends

unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead

or simply showing off your solving skills in a whole new medium

with black-and-white illustrations by Brett Helquist throughout

or more important

True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) but who now seems to"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