The book contains the story of honour, love, culture, mysteries, crimes, and violence.

In the novel, they’re struggling to convey their voices within the enclosed culture of the Arab community with conservative and sometimes abusive restrictions. The novel A Woman is no Man by Etaf Rum discusses all these questions in detail and shows you the story of a woman who is “ born without a voice”.Ī woman is no man by Etaf Rum explores how three generations of Palestinian American women in contemporary Brooklyn find it difficult to choose between two possibilities of individual desires and the strict norms of the community in which they live. Then, what is the purpose of an arranged loveless marriage? Their duties are well designed by the culture that may oppress their freedoms. 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.Do you know what suffering it brings to the women and girls in society? They are forced to get married at an early age without their consent.

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 honour, secrets and betrayals, love and violence. 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.īut 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… 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. 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.īrooklyn, 2008. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn.

Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Three generations of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue and courage. ‘A nuanced look at the power of shame to shatter lives and send shards of pain hurtling down the generations. Please allow notification and avoid private mode for this feature to work.

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