Description A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK A New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice - A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March - An Amazon Best Book of the Year - A Marie Claire Best Women\'s Fiction of 2019 - A USA Today Best Book of the Week - A Washington Book Review Difficult-To-Put-Down Novel - A Refinery 29 Best Books of the Month - A Buzzfeed News 4 Books We Couldn\'t Put Down Last Month - An Electric Lit 20 Best Debuts of the First Half of 2019 - A The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2019"Garnering justified comparisons to Khaled Hosseini\'s A Thousand Splendid Suns...
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 chil.
Over the course of a week, the na ve 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."Palestine, 1990.
Where I come from, we keep these stories to ourselves.
We\'ve been taught that silence will save us.
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."Where I come from, we\'ve learned to silence ourselves.
Etaf Rum\'s debut novel is a must-read about women mustering up the bravery to follow their inner voice." --Refinery 29In 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.
Description A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK A New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice - A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March - An Amazon Best Book of the Year - A Marie Claire Best Women\'s Fiction of 2019 - A USA Today Best Book of the Week - A Washington Book Review Difficult-To-Put-Down Novel - A Refinery 29 Best Books of the Month - A Buzzfeed News 4 Books We Couldn\'t Put Down Last Month - An Electric Lit 20 Best Debuts of the First Half of 2019 - A The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2019"Garnering justified comparisons to Khaled Hosseini\'s A Thousand Splendid Suns..
