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REVIEWS: A Woman Is No
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. 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 naïve 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. 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.
Characters: 37. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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