#a woman is no man

[doubledaybooks]

“A gorgeously written and profoundly intimate debut.” —Etaf Rum, author of New York Times bestseller A Woman Is No Man

Read BETWEEN TWO MOONS by Aisha Abdel Gawad

[youneedtostudyives]

Reading these at the same time had been quite the punch to the emotional nutsack.

[bookcadia]

“She woke up every morning feeling very young, yet at the same time terribly old. Some days she felt as though she were still a child, other days as thought se had felt far too much of the world for one life. That she had been burdened with duty ever since she was a child. That she had never really lived. She felt empty; she felt full. She needed people; she needed to be alone. She couldn't get the equation right? Who was to blame? She thought it was herself. She thought it was her mother, and her mother's mother, and the mothers of all their mothers, all the way back in time.”

― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

[chasingmywords]

a woman is no man by etaf rum

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

A Woman Is No Man

Follows three generations of Palestinian women:

an 18yo girl who gets married and moves from Palestine to New York in 1990, and struggles with her new husband and the pressure to have sons (but only having daughters)

and her oldest daughter at the same age in 2008, pressured to get married even though she wants to go to university, and discovering there’s more about her parents death’s than what she was told.

as well as moments from their mother in law / grandmother, who’s been through trauma of her own

abuse and generational trauma

[delightfuldetectivestrawberry]

"It's the loneliest people who love books the most."

A woman is no man, Etaf Rum

[brothersnackariahsbitch]

I highly highly HIGHLY recommend reading A Woman Is No Man and Evil Eye (both by Etaf Rum). Etaf Rum is a Palestinian American author who explores the Palestinian American experience (particularly that of women) in her books. Both of these books look at inter generational trauma in such a beautifully nuanced way. If you have inter generational trauma, you need to read these books. I cannot say enough good things about her work. Everyone should read both of them.

[maria818noctis]

Need😔🤞

[awolfinmycity]

"but she knew people only told you what you wanted to hear. That to understand someone, you had to listen to the words they didn't say, had to watch them closely."

- Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

[pangur-and-grim]

omg........Pangur got up in the middle of the night to vomit, which freaked me out, so I've been babying her all day (carrying her around, hand feeding her, etc). and she's been acting accordingly helpless and uwu-ing. anyways, I just found the vomit and it's a hairball. she's fine.

[princesspop]

Me next plsplspls

[litandlifequotes]

Words could do extraordinary things, but sometimes they were not enough.

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

[starvlzz]

need a guy that whimpers when i’m giving him head

[delightfuldetectivestrawberry]