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2019 | Fiction & Poetry
Palestine 1990. Seventeen year old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Her desires are irrelevant, however - over the course of a week, the naive and dreamy girl finds herself betrothed, then married, and soon living in Brooklyn. There Israel struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law for Fareeda, and her strange new husband Adam: a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children -- four daughters instead of sons israa is expected to bear.
Brooklyn 2008, at her grandmother's insistence, eighteen-year-old Deya must meet with potential husbands and prepare herself for marriage. Though her only desire is to go to college. Her grandmother is firm on the matter, however: the only way to secure a worthy future for data is through marriage to the right man. But Fate has a will of its own, and soon Daya will find herself on an unexpected path that leads her to shocking truth that will force her to question everything she thought she knew about her family, the past, and her own future.
Etaf Rum
(Author)
| Published by | Harper Collins |
| Edition | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780062699763 |
| Language | English |
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