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Woman Is No Man
Etaf Rum (Author), Ariana
Delawari (Narrator), Dahlia Salem (Narrator), Susan Nezami (Narrator), & 1
more
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Book Club Pick
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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 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.
Product
details
Author :
Etaf Rum
Narrator :
Ariana Delawari, Dahlia Salem, Susan Nezami
Audible.com Release Date :
March 05, 2019
Publisher :
HarperAudio
Version :
Unabridged
Language :
English
ASIN :
B07MVKVXX
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