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A woman is no man : a novel / Etaf Rum.
Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining suitors her father has chosen for her. Her desires are irrelevant, however - over the course of a week, the naive and dreamy girl finds herself betrothed, then married, and soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law, Fareeda, and her strange new husband, Adam: a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children - four daughters instead of the sons Isra is expected to bear. Brooklyn, 2008. At her grandmother's insistence, eighteen-year-old Deya must meet with potential husbands and prepare herself for marriage, though her only desire is to go to college. Her grandmother is firm on the matter, however: 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 that will force her to question everything she thought she knew about her family, the past, and her own future.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062699763
- ISBN: 0062699768
- Physical Description: 337 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
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| Subject: | Palestinian Americans > Fiction. Children of immigrants > Fiction. Women > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Nazareth. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity | FIC RUM WOM 2019 (Text) | 31001101751387 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
