A Woman Is No Man
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A New York Times bestseller *A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in
March * One of Cosmopolitan's Best Books by POC for 2019 * A
Refinery 29 Best Book of the Month * A The Millions Most
Anticipated Books of 2019 Three generations of Palestinian-American
women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the
strict mores of Arab culture in this heart-wrenching story of love,
intrigue and courage. `A love letter to storytelling' ' New York
Times `A tale as rich and varied as America itself'' Washington
Post `Garnering justified comparisons to Khaled Hosseini's A
Thousand Splendid Suns... Etaf Rum's debut novel is a must-read
about women mustering up the bravery to follow their inner voice'
Refinery 29 `A richly detailed and emotionally charged debut'
Kirkus Palestine, 1990.Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading
books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her.
Over the course of a week, the naive and dreamy girl finds herself
quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn.
There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive
mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that
intensifies as she begins to have children - four daughters instead
of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear.Brooklyn, 2008.
Eighteen-year-old Deya, Isra's oldest daughter, must meet with
potential husbands at her grandmother Fareeda's insistence, though
her only desire is to go to college. Deya can't help but wonder if
her options would have been different had her parents survived the
car crash that killed them when Deya was only eight.But her
grandmother is firm on the matter: the only way to secure a worthy
future for Deya is through marriage to the right man. But fate has
a will of its own, and soon Deya will find herself on an unexpected
path that leads her to shocking truths about her family - knowledge
that will force her to question everything she thought she knew
about her parents, the past, and her own future. Set in an America
at once foreign to many and staggeringly close at hand, A Woman Is
No Man is a story of culture and honour, secrets and betrayals,
love and violence.It is an intimate glimpse into a controlling and
closed cultural world, and a universal tale about family and the
ways silence and shame can destroy those we have sworn to protect.
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