The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) Susan Lieu allies will be made

allies will be made

his father recently deceased

seducing the coolly intense lady scholar quickly becomes a mission in itself and his well-laid plans are in danger of derailing

the sinuous landscape

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

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) Susan Lieu allies will be made"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