![]() ![]() But her grandmother is firm on the matter: the only way to secure a worthy future for Deya is through marriage to the right man.īut fate has a will of its own, and soon Deya will find herself on an unexpected path that leads her to shocking truths about her family-knowledge that will force her to question everything she thought she knew about her parents, the past, and her own future. 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. This is mainly where I struggled with the book. Unfortunately it felt to me like the author just prolonged the book by dragging out and repeating the same things over and over in different but extremely similar ways. ![]() Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. But as much as I was pulled in with interest about this topic, it couldn’t have been told much slower. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. ![]()
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