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Joan's Picks: A Woman is No Man and Let Me Not Be Mad

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Sun, 3 Mar 2019, 1:15PM

Joan's Picks: A Woman is No Man and Let Me Not Be Mad

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Newstalk ZB ,
Publish Date
Sun, 3 Mar 2019, 1:15PM

A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum. Fiction .

The immigrant story is endlessly fascinating to me, and this one of three generations of Palestinian women is wonderful. Their lives are strictly controlled, even when transplanted to the US, where their activities are entirely circumscribed and the new cultural mores of America don’t apply. Teenaged Isra is despatched to Brooklyn in an arranged marriage, where her new life, living with the in-laws, is a misery. At the age of 18, her own daughter faces a similar fate but is no longer prepared to accept the traditional ways, and her rebellion has far reaching consequences for the entire family.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34313931-a-woman-is-no-man?from_search=true

Let Me Not Be Mad by A.K.Benjamin. Nonfiction.

A remarkable, brave account of the author’s experience as a clinical neuropsychologist (after a career wearing many hats) – who, whilst sharing stories of patients he has listened to and treated, experiences a parallel descent into his own madness even as he tries to maintain a grasp on reality – so that by the end of the book he’s the one cowering under the desk in his consulting room while his client looks on

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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