A Woman Is No Man · Etaf Rum

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A  New York Times  Best Seller A Read with Jenna  Today Show  Recording Club Pick  A  New York Times Book Review  Editors’ Choice • Washington Post  10 Books to Read in March •  Marie Claire  Best Women’s Fiction of 2019 •  Washington Book Review  Difficult-To-Put-Down Novel • The Millions  Most Anticipated Books of 2019 • A  USA Today  Best Book of the Week • An Elaine Newton – Summer Reading List Critic’s Choice • A Girls Night In Book Club Pick “I couldn’t put it down.  I was obsessed with figuring out the mystery of this family.” (Jenna Bush Hager,  Today Show  Book Club Pick)  Three generations of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this powerful debut – a heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue, courage, and betrayal that will resonate with women from all backgrounds, giving voice to the silenced and agency to the oppressed. “Where I come from, we’ve learned to silence ourselves. We’ve 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 of – dangerous, the ultimate shame.” 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 i

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