As we learned in TLLFYL, following your heart sometimes means taking the road less travelled. The same could be said for 17-year-old Isra, who quickly finds herself uprooting her life in Palestine for Brooklyn, NY, where she'll marry a man chosen for her by her parents. Brooklyn, 2008: in a perfect world, Deya, Isra's 18-year-old daughter, would be heading off to college, not courting potential suitors picked by her grandmother. But with both her parents dead and no money to her name, Deya doesn't have much of a choice, or does she? A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum is a multigenerational story of three Palestinian-American women trying to forge their own path under the pressures of their society and culture.