Ep. 1: The July War

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This coming of age story is set amid what the author calls the ‘traumatic and surreal’ experience of the July War in Beirut. Against the backdrop of war and its fallout, a young teenager faces smaller but no less intimidating personal conflicts, including his emerging sexuality, his relationship with his father, the aggressive attentions of a bully and a reluctant friendship with a refugee. Small and large scale devastations converge to contrast the unfairness, injustice and confusion of two very different battlefields.

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Awful! Depressing! Vulgar?
No redeeming value but an emphasis on the negatives of human nature!

Awful!!

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The humorous tone conveys love for quirky people facing horrible stress, and even a kind of nostalgia for their time and place.

Darkly funny

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talk about different words for giving an Arab a blow job. hoping for something more pleasant.

Filthy

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