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An NPR Best Book of the Year - A Time Magazine Most Anticipated Book of the Year ""A moving meditation on motherhood, intergenerational trauma and how surface appearances often obscure a deeper truth. . . . A stunning second novel from a writer who set the bar very high with her first!""--Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics and Community Board The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking exploration of the expectations of a Palestinian-American woman, the meaning of a fulfilling life, and the ways our unresolved pasts affect our presents. Yara Murad has worked hard to outrun the demons of her tumultuous Brooklyn childhood. Now living far from home, Yara has achieved everything she aspired to: She is highly educated and teaches art to college student. She's also raising two daughters with her businessman husband, Fadi. Her marriage is nothing like her parents' high-conflict relationship, and she knows her life is worlds better and freer than her mother's. So why doesn't it feel that way? Why does Yara experience flashes of anger out of nowhere or a sadness she can't name? When an incident at the college threatens her job, her mother suggests that a family curse could be to blame. While Yara doesn't believe in old superstitions, she's shaken as she finds her carefully constructed world beginning to implode. To save herself, Yara must finally confront the childhood she thought she'd left behind and forge her own path forward.

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A blistering exploration of three generations of Palestinian-American women, unfolding in lyrical but demanding prose. --Entertainment Weekly on A WOMAN IS NO MAN Both a love letter to storytelling and a careful object lesson in its power.... A startling portrait of the mechanics of complicity, of the intergenerational pathology of silence. --New York Times Book Review on A WOMAN IS NO MAN Complicates and deepens the Arab American story -- a tale as rich and varied as America itself. --Washington Post on A WOMAN IS NO MAN

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Etaf Rum was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, by Palestinian immigrants. Her first novel, A Woman Is No Man, was a New York Times bestseller and a Today Show Read With Jenna book club pick.

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