Overview
TheĀ New York TimesĀ bestseller and Read with JennaĀ TODAY SHOWĀ Book Club pickĀ telling 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 communityānow available as a limited Olive Edition from Harper Perennial.
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"Where I come from, weāve learned to silence ourselves. Weāve been taught that silence will save us. Where I come from, we keep these stories to ourselves. To tell them to the outside world is unheard ofādangerous, the ultimate shame.ā
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 naĆÆve 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 childrenāfour daughters instead of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear.
Brooklyn, 2008. Eighteen-year-old Deya, Israās oldest daughter, must meet with potential husbands at her grandmother Fareedaās insistence, though her only desire is to go to college. Deya canāt 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.Ā 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 familyāknowledge that will force her to question everything she thought she knew about her parents, the past, and her own future.
This book title, A Woman Is No Man (A Read with Jenna Pick), ISBN: 9780062699770, by Etaf Rum, published by HarperCollins (February 4, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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