A Woman Is No Man - Etaf Rum - ★★★.½
AUTHOR: Etaf Rum GENRE: Middle-East Fiction. PUBLICATION DATE: March 5, 2019 RATING: 3.5 stars. Some books aren't cushy reads. When you read through the story, you experience all the varying emotions from rage to helplessness to sadness to disgust. This is one such book. The book tells the story of three women of Palestinian descent: Deya, Isra, and Fareeda. Each of a different generation, each of a different ideology, each with a different personality. Their life in Brooklyn is neither smooth nor carefree and each battles a separate demon secretly. Thus their circumstances are similar to a great extent but how they react to it is very different. There are many scenes in this book that just caused me to boil in fury. Like I said, it isn't an easy book to read. You just feel like shaking some of the women characters in the hope of drilling some sense in their head. Many of the situations in the book hit too close to home, and you begin to wonder why such regressive beliefs abou...