TIC Book Club: A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

thu20aug6:00 pmthu7:00 pmTIC Book Club: A Woman Is No Man by Etaf RumOnline Via Zoom6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Time

(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location

The Interchurch Center Library

61 Claremont Avenue, New York, NY 10115

Event Details

The August selection for our book club is A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum.

About the Book:

This debut novel by an Arab-American voice, takes us inside the lives of conservative Arab women living in America.

In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deya’s mother, Isra, also had no choice when she left Palestine as a teenager to marry Adam. Though Deya was raised to believe her parents died in a car accident, a secret note from a mysterious, yet familiar-looking woman makes Deya question everything she was told about her past. As the narrative alternates between the lives of Deya and Isra, she begins to understand the dark, complex secrets behind her community.

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Organizer

Tracey Del Duca

tdelduca@interchurch-center.org 61 Claremont Avenue

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