In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice.
Enjoy our presentation of A Woman is No Man written by Etaf Rum and published by HarperCollins. In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deya’s mother, Isra, also had no choice when she left Palestine as a teenager to marry Adam. Though Deya was raised to believe her parents died in a car accident, a secret note from a mysterious, yet familiar-looking woman makes Deya question everything she was told about her past. As the narrative alternates between the lives of Deya and Isra, she begins to understand the dark, complex secrets behind her community.
A Woman is No Man was named a Bookbrowe Best Book of the Year and Marie Claire Best Women's Fiction of the Year.
Please be advised, A Woman is No Man contains depictions or discussions of domestic abuse, physical abuse and emotional abuse.
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