A woman is no man : a novel
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A woman is no man : a novel
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- Label
- A woman is no man : a novel
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Etaf Rum
- Subject
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- Women -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- trueGender role
- trueImmigrant families
- New York (State) -- New York
- New York (State) -- New York | Brooklyn
- truePalestinian American women
- Palestinian Americans
- Palestinian Americans
- Palestinian Americans -- Fiction
- trueReputation
- trueSelf-fulfillment in women
- Women
- Women
- trueArranged marriage
- Arranged marriage -- Fiction
- trueBlended families
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- trueBrooklyn, New York City
- Children of immigrants
- Children of immigrants
- Children of immigrants -- Fiction
- trueCommunities
- trueCulture conflict
- Domestic fiction
- trueDomestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- FICTION -- Cultural Heritage
- FICTION -- Family Life | General
- FICTION -- Women
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- FICTION / Women
- trueFamily relationships
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 naèive 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 insistence, though her only desire is to go to college. 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. 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 family -- knowledge that will force her to question everything she thought she knew about her parents, the past, and her own future. 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 honor, secrets and betrayals, love and violence. It 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. -- Provided by publisher
- Award
- Rise: A Feminist Book Project List, 2020.
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3618.U564
- LC item number
- W66 2019
- Literary form
- novels
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