| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Woman Is No Man | 2019 | Etaf Rum | Buy |
| 2 | Evil Eye | 2023 | Etaf Rum | Buy |
Etaf Rum’s standalone novels examine the interior lives of Arab American women. “A Woman Is No Man” (2019) spans three generations of a Palestinian American family, while “Evil Eye” (2023) follows a woman whose carefully constructed life begins to crack.
Both novels draw on Rum’s own background to tell stories about the weight of expectation and the cost of silence.
There are two books in the Etaf Rum Standalone Novels series, published between 2019 and 2023.
The first book in the Etaf Rum Standalone Novels series is A Woman Is No Man, published in 2019.
“A Woman Is No Man” (2019) follows three generations of Palestinian American women in Brooklyn. A grandmother who emigrated from Palestine, a mother trapped in an abusive marriage, and a college-aged daughter fighting for independence — their stories interweave to reveal how silence and cultural expectations pass down through families.
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