A Woman Is No Man: A Novel Short Stories transform the conversation

transform the conversation

they will find that home might have been closer than they thought all along

Miserable and desperate to see her sister on the anniversary of their mother’s death

looking at alternative ways for African Americans to find success in Hollywood and suggesting how they can band together to forge their own career paths

A Woman Is No Man: A Novel Short Stories transform the conversationHighly acclaimed debut author Etaf Rum tells 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. A dauntless exploration of the pathology of silence, an attempt to unsnarl the dark knot of history, culture, fear, and trauma that can render conservative Arab American women so visibly invisible.