As if in an instant, Isra finds herself immigrating to a new country equipped with her own version of the American dream the hope of finding love and freedom. One day, a family of Palestinian-Americans comes to her home to ask for her hand and it is here that the reader is introduced to her future husband Adam Ra'ad, of Ramla via Brooklyn, New York. It begins with Isra in 1990 Birzeit who as a 17-year-old woman in Palestine prefers reading books to entertaining discussions of marriage and suitors. The novel follows the lives of three generations of women within the same family.
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