etaf rum – Cannonball Read 17

“No matter what any woman said, culture could not be escaped. Even if it meant tragedy. Even if it meant death.”

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

February 8, 2022 by RaRaGabor Leave a Comment

Rum’s heartbreaking debut is a generational story about three Palestinian-American women struggling to find their place within their family, balancing their culture with the new pressures and freedom of America. We have three main POV charactersIsra is born and raised in Palestine, and after her arranged marriage at 17, moves to live with her husband’s family to Brooklyn. Isra dreams of finding a love like the one she’s read about in books. Deya is Isra’s oldest daughter, who dreams of going to college instead of […]

Their Own Voices

Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

December 10, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

If anyone needs a book for the Own Voices Bingo square next year, these would all make excellent choices! (4 stars) Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha I was certain I’d added this to my TBR after reading a Cannonball review on it, but I can’t find one so maybe not. Maybe it came from Goodreads best of list for 2019? Regardless, it’s a relatively new book but I’m betting we’ll start seeing it everywhere. Your House Will Pay starts out in L.A. in the […]

If you want your heart to break repeatedly

A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum

February 26, 2019 by Manimama Leave a Comment

This debut novel follows a family forced out of their home in Palestine through their lives in New York. A Woman is No Man focuses on three generations of women in the Ra’ad family: Fareeda, the matriarch; Isra, her daughter-in-law; and Deya, Isra’s eldest daughter. We meet Isra when she is seventeen years old and living in Palestine. Her parents have arranged her marriage to a Palestinian refugee living in Brooklyn. Isra has hopes of a better life with this new family. She is an avid […]

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