![]() Deya can’t help but wonder if her options would have been different had her parents survived the car crash that killed them when Deya was only eight. Eighteen-year-old Deya, Isra’s oldest daughter, must meet with potential husbands at her grandmother Fareeda’s insistence, though her only desire is to go to college. ![]() There, Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law, Fareeda, and strange new husband, Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children - four daughters instead of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear.īrooklyn, 2008. Over the course of a week, the naive and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married and is soon living in Brooklyn. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. To tell them to the outside world is unheard of - dangerous, the ultimate shame.” ![]() ![]() Where I come from, we keep these stories to ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence will save us. "Where I come from, we’ve learned to silence ourselves. ![]() Three generations of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this powerful debut - a heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue, courage, and betrayal that will resonate with women from all backgrounds, giving voice to the silenced and agency to the oppressed. ![]()
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