She tells MEE, “I wasn’t able, like Deya, to postpone an arranged marriage. In an Instagram post, Rum states that writing this book was a way for her to find her voice and rewrite the narrative of her own life. 'Even though I had fought for my education, I was still, in a sense, repeating the patriarchal family expectations and lifestyle as my parents' “I like fiction, so I thought I’d put a fictional spin on it.” “ A Woman Is No Man is based largely on my upbringing,” Rum tells MEE, saying she did not want to write a memoir since many of the issues were so sensitive. She is in an abusive relationship but doesn’t want to displease her family by separating from her husband.Īnd Deya is Adam and Isra’s rebellious teenage daughter, who refuses to be sucked into the same cycle of oppression and abuse that her mother and grandmother have painfully and silently endured. Isra is Fareeda’s daughter-in-law who is married to her son Adam. Fareeda is a grandmother who fled a refugee camp in Palestine following the Nakba (the Catastrophe) with her family and is portrayed as a conservative woman eager to keep her family and Arab traditions intact. The book tells the story of three generations of Palestinian-American women in Brooklyn.
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