{"product_id":"book-cstc","title":"A Woman Is No Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA READ WITH JENNA\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTODAY SHOW\u003c\/em\u003e BOOK CLUB PICK \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Editors’ Choice • A \u003cem\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/em\u003e10 Books to Read in March • \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/em\u003e Best Women’s Fiction of 2019\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e • \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eWashington Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eDifficult-To-Put-Down Novel • A \u003cem\u003eRefinery 29\u003c\/em\u003e Best Books of the Month • An \u003cem\u003eElectric Lit\u003c\/em\u003e 20 Best Debuts of the First Half of 2019 • A \u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e Most Anticipated Books of 2019 • A \u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Week • \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn Elaine Newton—Summer Reading List Critic’s Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e • \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGirls Night In\u003c\/em\u003e Book Club Pick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“I couldn't put it down.  I was obsessed with figuring out the mystery of this family.\"   \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Jenna Bush Hager, \u003cem\u003eToday Show\u003c\/em\u003e Book Club Pick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Garnering justified comparisons to Khaled Hosseini’s \u003cem\u003eA Thousand Splendid Suns\u003c\/em\u003e… Etaf Rum’s debut novel is a must-read about women mustering up the bravery to follow their inner voice.”   —\u003cem\u003eRefinery 29\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003estunning debut novel that hooked me from page one.… Rum accomplishes the high-wire act of telling a story that feels both contemporary and timeless, intimate and epic.\"    \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Tara Conklin, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Bestselling Author of \u003cem\u003eThe Last Romantics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Where I come from, we’ve learned to silence ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence will save us. Where I come from, we keep these stories to ourselves. To tell them to the outside world is unheard of\u003c\/em\u003e—\u003cem\u003edangerous, the ultimate shame.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePalestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrooklyn, 2008. 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. 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in an America at once foreign to many and staggeringly close at hand, \u003cem\u003eA Woman Is No Man\u003c\/em\u003e is a story of culture and honor, secrets and betrayals, love and violence. It is an intimate glimpse into a controlling and closed cultural world, and a universal tale about family and the ways silence and shame can destroy those we have sworn to protect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49344817398064,"sku":"BDcstc","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49344817463600,"sku":"ZEcstc","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49344817496368,"sku":"ZMcstc","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/cstc-Square-cover.jpg?v=1778350379","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cstc","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}