So if you are able to purchase a copy of the book below, that would be great! But if you are not in a position to do so at the moment, feel free to pay what you can below. Karl the Kraken knows we are facing tough times right now. This virtual event will be moderated by Naijla Faizi, Associate Chaplain of Muslim Life. But her grandmother is firm on the matter: the only way to secure a worthy future for Deya is through marriage to the right man.īut fate has a will of its own, and soon Deya will find herself on an unexpected path that leads her to shocking truths about her family - knowledge that will force her to question everything she thought she knew about her parents, the past, and her own future.Bookmarks and the Wake Forest University's Women's Center are pleased to present Etaf Rum. Deya can’t help but wonder if her options would have been different had her parents survived the car crash that killed them when Deya was only eight. Eighteen-year-old Deya, Isra’s oldest daughter, must meet with potential husbands at her grandmother Fareeda’s insistence, though her only desire is to go to college.

There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children - four daughters instead of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear.īrooklyn, 2008. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. To tell them to the outside world is unheard of - dangerous, the ultimate shame.” Where I come from, we keep these stories to ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence will save us. “Where I come from, we’ve learned to silence ourselves. The New York Times bestseller and Read with Jenna TODAY SHOW Book Club pick telling the story of three generations of Palestinian-American women struggling to express their individual desires within the confines of their Arab culture in the wake of shocking intimate violence in their community. Garnering justified comparisons to Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns… Etaf Rum’s debut novel is a must-read about women mustering up the bravery to follow their inner voice. A The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2019.An Electric Lit 20 Best Debuts of the First Half of 2019.A Buzzfeed News 4 Books We Couldn’t Put Down Last Month.A Washington Book Review Difficult-To-Put-Down Novel.

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