Tara is a character in the novel You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat. Just like the novel’s unnamed narrator, Tara is bi. She is “of Syrian descent”, and therefore Arab-American, like the narrator.
Tara is described as having grown up “in some sort of commune” with parents who are “both drug addicts”. Tara is studying a masters of fine arts in poetry and moves into the apartment next to that of the narrator.
Tara has recently divorced her husband; she tells the narrator that she had told him that they “didn’t have enough sex, and as punishment, he stopped sleeping with [Tara] entirely.”
When the narrator tells Tara about her past relationships, Tara says to the narrator: “I wouldn’t have guessed you were bi” to which the narrator shrugs, saying “isn’t everyone, these days?”.
Tara and the narrator kiss. Tara tells the narrator that “this is new for her”, meaning same-sex relations. They then have sex.
Tara sleeps with both the narrator and occasionally their neighbour, Jimmy. Her “only conditions” for sleeping with the narrator are “no feelings” plus “drunkenness”, so it would seem that Tara is not comfortable about her own bisexuality.