![]() Her compelling novel is set in Brooklyn, where Rum was born and lives, perhaps in the same Bay Ridge multicultural community her characters dwell. No matter how many books you’ve read, how many tales you know, believe me: no one has ever told you a story like this one.” Presumably something the author felt morally compelled to write, saying: Yet she dares doing so anyway.Ĭlearly, something else is afoot. “ Surely I’ll only upset people and fuel furtherĭiscrimination already stereotyped by a single story. Risking perpetuating negative stereotypes about Rum’s own immigrant communityĪt a time when hate crimes and anti-immigrant sentiments are sharply on the She was “constantly swallowed by fear” writing it, yet she broke a “culture ofĬreate a dark plot about arranged marriages in strict, conservative Arabįamilies that isolates Palestinian women with emotional and physical abuse, Reader copy and the preface to her debut novel, A Woman is No Man, confiding ![]() She says as much in a Dear Reader note in an advanced ![]() (Brooklyn 2008 Palestine to Brooklyn 1990s backstories): Etaf ![]()
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