Summary of A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Summary of A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum The following version was used to make this summary: Rum, Etaf. A Woman is No Man. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. The novel is broken into three sections, however for the reasons for this summary will be broken into eight sections. The original starts without a chapter, heading, or defined character - only a female voice disclosing to the reader how, "I was born without a voice." The perspective ends as she explains that the story starts in Palestine. The perspective changes to third person from Isra, in Birzeit, Palestine, in 1990. She is 17, and her folks have brought a suitor to wed her: a Palestinian man named Adam who lives in America. They go to Jerusalem to get her visa, and have a huge wedding ceremony. Her perspective closes as she hopes her life will be better in America. Section 1 starts according to Deya's perspective, in 2008 in Brooklyn, as she prepares mint chai for a suitor, Nasser. She is 18, in high school, and wants to go to college, but Fareeda wants her to get married first. She meets with Nasser in the kitchen while his folks converse with her grandparents. A while later, Fareeda tells her Nasser needs to see her again, and she hesitantly agrees to meet him once more. Sometime later she tells her three younger sisters Nora, Layla, and Amal about him, and they talk about their folks who died in an auto accident when Deya was seven. Deya thinks about her memories of her dad beating her mom. Grab a copy of this book now!