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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. 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.īut 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. 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. 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. 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.īrooklyn, 2008. 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. ‘A richly detailed and emotionally charged debut’ Kirkus Etaf Rum's debut novel is a must-read about women mustering up the bravery to follow their inner voice’ Refinery 29 ‘Garnering justified comparisons to Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns. ‘A tale as rich and varied as America itself’’ Washington Post ‘A love letter to storytelling’ ’ New York Times 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.

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