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A Woman Is No Man: A Read with Jenna Pick

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A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Best Fiction and Best Debut - BookBrowse's Best Book of the Year - A Marie Claire Best Women's Fiction of the Year - A Real Simple Best Book of the Year - A PopSugar Best Book of the Year All Written By Females - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in ...show more

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352 pages

Average rating: 7.92

520 RATINGS

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18 REVIEWS

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Anonymous
Jan 27, 2024
10/10 stars
What an incredible book to finish off the year! This was truly so powerfully written and painful to read, especially as someone who relates to some of the central struggles in the novel (feeling pressure from family and culture to get married young), and my heart broke for Isra and healed partway with Deya's resolution breaking the cycle of her foremothers. While it's not necessarily about the occupation and genocide in Palestine, those events do...read more
IronQueen
Jan 19, 2024
10/10 stars
This hit way too close to home. Ezra is close to my age and her major life events happened around my own. There is freedom in breaking the cycle and it takes women to do it. Once I sat on the “male” side of church in an Orthodox country with my husband, whom I later risked my life and my son’s to escape. Did the men say a word? No. It was the women who interrupted the service to physically and painfully drag me to the women’s side. I learned ...read more
Delle Bonner
Dec 02, 2023
I really enjoyed this one. In so many ways I could relate to the women in my own experiences. I was taken back by the ending, it got me. But this was written so well I felt the characters emotions throughout the book. I was rooting for Isra, and Deya from the beginning. That never stopped throughout the book. This one will forever remain on my shelf! It also gave me insight on Arabic Culture and even more sensitive in today’s time, immigration. A...read more
Jaysadilla
Nov 29, 2023
8/10 stars
I wished the ending was different but this book was so deep and gives a inside look of the women in Arabic culture. This should be required reading!
DD86
Nov 06, 2023
8/10 stars
A Woman is No Man was written by a Palestinian-American woman about her experience; however, this novel crosses all cultures. Rum writes of the secrets and shame women carry in some families where both women and men see women as chattels. Women are dangerous with an education especially when the men in the family are not educated. The changing of Islamic meaning to enhance the power of men is a travesty. Throughout the book, as a Palestinian-...read more

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