Has anyone done an analysis of the very popular 2019 novel _A Woman is No Man_-
by Etaf Rum? I am a professional book discussion facilitator (among other
things) and for the first time declined to facilitate because I could not make
myself read the book (and I have in fact read in order to facilitate plenty of
both fiction and non-fiction that were awful, or whose premises were deceptive,
or distorted the facts, etc. etc. etc. Other factors contributing: a
Pittsburgh native, I started to read it just after the Jersey City and Monsey
domestic terrorist attacks; the group is the "private" group as in not
sponsored by an institution and all of them are Jewish women in their seventies
most of whom have known each other since childhood). I was stopped on page 4
by this sentence, and just could not read further ... the author is writing
about Lyd and how the family's home was taken by occupying Israeli forces in
what is implicitly by earlier dating 1948, what stopped me cold was " "Israel's
invasion of Palestine". Again, the implicit dating is 1948. (At that point,
of course, the referents for the word "Palestine" would only have been Jewish
ones.) Anyone have more on this one? Similar to the wonderfully helpful
posting Marjorie Gann just did. Or maybe the book got better ... I don't know,
for the first time in my long life of decades of professional facilitating and
volunteer facilitating since 7th grade, I couldn't read a book for a book
discussion. Thank you in advance. Jonina Duker
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