In a letter to early readers, Rum also writes that her community had always told her about the limitations of her gender, but she later discovered this to be a strength, "I began to see the ways the women around me were unique from men, in their ability to juggle the demand of culture, family, relationships, and parenting." The act of writing a story that deals with her culture's harmful and toxic patriarchy is something that brought the author "moments of fear and uncertainty". Rum, who is the founder of the Instagram project is a talented new voice in the Palestinian-American community, and her first novel tells a heartbreaking story that is fraught with emotion and deals very subjects like domestic abuse, mental health and generational trauma. Etaf Rum's debut novel A Woman Is No Man has stirred up quite the buzz ever since its recent publication.
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