![]() ![]() “Marriage, motherhood – that is a woman’s only worth,” Isra is told.įast-forward 18 years: Deya, Isra’s eldest daughter, is chafing against that sexist mantra. But her mother cautions that the American Dream is a man's business. ![]() ![]() New York sounds promising, and she’s deluged in gold on her wedding day. In 1990, Isra, a 17-year-old Palestinian, is hastily married off to Adam, a deli manager in Brooklyn. Her heartfelt and piercing debut novel, “A Woman Is No Man” (Harper, 352 pp., ★★★ out of four), explores how domestic violence infects one family of Arab immigrants. Etaf Rum understands that the experience can leave physical bruises, too. Novels about the immigrant experience often turn on the psychic trauma that families endure in a new country. ![]()
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