Author
Rabih Alameddine
4 award wins, 1 nomination across 3 books.
Rabih Alameddine is a painter and the author of the National Book Award-winning *The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)*, as well as the novels *An Unnecessary Woman*; *I, the Divine*; *Koolaids*; *The Hakawati*; and the story collection, *The Perv*. He divides his time between San Francisco and Beirut.
An Unnecessary Woman
Published 2014-02-04 · 313 pages
"Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her family's 'unnecessary appendage.' Every year, she translates a new favorite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime have never been read-- by anyone. After overhearing her neighbors, 'the three witches,' discussing her too-white hair, Aaliya accidentally dyes her hair too blue.
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The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
336 pages
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The Wrong End of the Telescope
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