For Better Or Worse, New Novel Shows 'A Woman Is No Man'
Etaf Rum's new novel draws from her own experiences of arranged marriage and early motherhood in the close-knit Palestinian American community where she grew up — and which she eventually left.
Etaf Rum's new novel, , may violate a code of silence in the tight-knit and often closed Palestinian American community of Brooklyn in which she grew up, and which she left. Her protagonist, Isra, was born in Palestine, but comes to Brooklyn when her family arranges a marriage to Adam, who runs a deli across the river in Manhattan. The narrative eventually shifts to Deya, the oldest of their
