A Woman is No Man. Etaf Rum

A Woman is No Man

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ETAF RUM was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, by Palestinian immigrants. She teaches college English literature in North Carolina, where she lives with her two children. Etaf also runs the Instagram account @booksandbeans. A Woman Is No Man is her first novel.

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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2019

Etaf Rum asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Ebook Edition © March 2019 ISBN: 9780008341077

To Reyann and Isah,

nur hayati

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.

Audre Lorde

Part I

A Woman is No Man. Etaf Rum

A Woman is No Man

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