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Tale of a Boon's Wife
Tale of a Boon's Wife | Fartumo Kusow
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Despite her familys threat to disown her, Idil, a young Somali woman, rejects her high Bliss status to marry Sidow, a poor Boon man. Her decision transforms her life, forcing her to face harsh and sometimes even deadly consequences for her defiance of a strict tribal hierarchy. Set in the fifteen-year period before Somalias 1991 Civil War, Idils journey is almost too hard to bear at times. Her determination to follow her heart and to pursue love over family and convention is a story that has been told across time and across cultures.
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Couldn‘t put this book down. In direct & uncomplicated lines, Kusow tells the story of Idil, a Somali girl of privileged Bliss birth as she grows to understand & resist the constraints of her situation of girl becoming woman. Idil falls in love with Sidow, a man of the inferior Boon class. This forbidden love story that pulls one family apart & defies generations of ethnic and gender-based hierarchy is told with sweetness and tension.