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Etaf Rum
Goodreads Author
Born
Brooklyn, NY
Member Since
July 2018
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A Woman Is No Man
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2019
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51 editions
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Evil Eye
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2023
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23 editions
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Mother Country
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"Once again, great writing. It is a little of a slow burn, but the story and character development is great. "
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Oh I wanted to reach through to pages to hug Yara and smack her husband. I related so much to the inner struggle of memory, guilt, and shame compounded by the gaslighting of family. I was pleased to see more than one attempt at the" Read more of this review » |
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Etaf Rum
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Evil Eye
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Best Fiction
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"This started as a 2.5 and then ended as a 4. It took me about 100 pages to really start to appreciate the narrator's omniscience, because it felt weirdly stilted. It isn't until the end (and maybe even in reading the author's bio) that I realized thi"
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Hi Sara, You are so kind and thoughtful. Thank you for supporting my work and for the wonderful book suggestions!
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"I pre-ordered this book months ago because I loved Etaf Rum’s debut A Woman is No Man so much. I was lucky enough to ask Etaf a question during an online book event run by Shelterbox about her first book, and I just think she’s so warm and such an in"
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This makes me happy. Thank you for reading!
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Thank you so much for sharing this thoughtful review <3
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“Too often being happy means being passive or playing it safe. There's no skill required in happiness, no strength of character, nothing extraordinary. Its discontent that drives creation the most--passion, desire, defiance. Revolutions don't come from a place of happiness. If anything, I think it's sadness, or discontent at least, that's at the root of everything beautiful.”
― A Woman Is No Man
― A Woman Is No Man
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| Play Book Tag: A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum -- 5 stars + ♥ | 5 | 35 | Mar 24, 2019 10:50AM | |
| 500 Great Books B...: 6 - Multi-Generational Family Saga | 4 | 27 | Apr 03, 2019 03:18PM |
