Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. To tell them to the outside world is unheard of- dangerous, the ultimate shame." Where I come from, we keep these stories to ourselves. We've been taught that silence will save us. "Where I come from, we've learned to silence ourselves. Set in an America at once foreign to many and staggeringly close at hand, A Woman Is No Man 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.
In her debut novel Etaf Rum tells the story of three generations of Palestinian-American women struggling to express their individual desires within the confines of their Arab culture in the wake of shocking intimate violence in their community-a story of culture and honor, secrets and betrayals, love and violence. A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceĪ Washington Post 10 Books to Read in MarchĪ Marie Claire Best Women's Fiction of 2019Ī Washington Book Review Difficult-To-Put-Down NovelĪ Buzzfeed News 4 Books We Couldn't Put Down Last MonthĪn Electric Lit 20 Best Debuts of the First Half of 2019Ī The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2019
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