Dea Raad was born and lives in Brooklyn, New York. As soon as she turned eighteen, her relatives started looking for a husband for her, even though she dreams of university rather than marriage. But her grandparents have already decided everything for their granddaughter—she will repeat her mother’s fate, too: without being asked, she was married at seventeen and sent from Palestine to America. Dea’s parents died in a car accident when Dea and her sisters were very small—at least that’s what she believed until one day she received a letter from an unknown woman who didn’t want to reveal her name, but knew the Raad family well. The message cast doubt on everything Dea knows about her loved ones and her own past… "Women Are Not Men" is a novel about three generations of Palestinian American women torn between strict morals of a traditional family structure and the desire to determine their own fate.