The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) | Rabih Alameddine (Author) Charlesbridge Worst of all

Worst of all

Sharpener on top of each pencil

wracked with fever

Mesmerizing and full of heart

Up in their tree house

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) | Rabih Alameddine (Author) Charlesbridge Worst of allWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "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