A Woman Is No Man
About this book
This debut novel by an Arab-American voice,takes us inside the lives of conservative Arab women living in America.
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.
Subjects
- adult
- adult fiction
- arranged marriage
- children of immigrants
- contemporary
- cultural heritage
- family life
- family secrets
- feminism
- fiction
- fiction / cultural heritage
- fiction, cultural heritage
- fiction, family life
- fiction / family life / general
- fiction / women
- fiction, women
- general
- historical
- historical fiction
- literary fiction
- new york (n.y.), fiction
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:hardcover-fiction=2019-05-19
- palestinian americans
- women