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. To tell them to the outside world is unheard of-dangerous, the ultimate shame.” Where I come from, we keep these stories to ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence will save us. “Where I come from, we’ve learned to silence ourselves. A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum Book Summary:
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