num_pages: 339
description: This debut novel by a Palestinian-American voice takes us inside the lives of a conservative Arab family living in America. In Brooklyn eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesnt want to get married her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deyas 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.
language: English
title: A Woman Is No Man
publisher: Harper