Hello dear Readers,
Below my book review of A Woman is no Man: A Novel-by Etaf Rum.
Title: A Woman is no Man: A Novel
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Genre: Women's Fiction
Author: Etaf Rum
Author: Etaf Rum
Publisher: Harper
Language: English
Book Description
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.
Brooklyn, 2008. 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. Deya can’t help but wonder if her options would have been different had her parents survived the car crash that killed them when Deya was only eight. 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.
But 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—knowledge that will force her to question everything she thought she knew about her parents, the past, and her own future.
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.
My Thoughts
One of the best books I have read this year.
One of the best books I have read this year.
I went through all the emotions, from crying to laughing, anger, sadness, hope, happiness. All the topics touched in this book are relevant, make you think, re-think, this book shakes your perspective and thoughts in so many ways, the not so hidden conversation and narrative on it, is relevant to our time now, our society in general.
A work of fiction, yes, but the story, the events on it, real, is what lots of women go through, how they live by, in reality, everyday, all the decisions, all the hardships, all what they cannot do and what they are supposed to do and who they are supposed to be.
Some of the characters I disliked, not because they are not relevant to the story but because I could not help but think, it is a character in this fictional work but in reality, this person exists somewhere. I think that was a constant though in my mind while reading this book, a work of fiction but it is reality for so many people out there.
I loved the writing, I loved the story, is not rushed, we get to know the characters, their feelings, what they are going through.
This is a very important book that I strongly believe everybody should read.
Wendy
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