![]() ![]() However, one of the narrators, Suzanne, comes to the country from the United States. Not for a moment does this book presume that it is only in this society that women are oppressed, although three of the four narrators certainly feel that women are more oppressed in this country than they are elsewhere. ![]() Rarely does anything happen outside the arenas of their own houses or those of relatives and friends. Their feelings and relationships with each other and their families and friends occupy much of their lives, seemingly because women in this society do not have access to much else. Their stories revolve around how each of the women deals with that oppression.Īt times the women relate incidents more than one of them has experienced but from a different perspective, so that the reader gets to know each of their characters. They live in a society (other reviewers have identified the country as Saudi Arabia) that all of them find oppressive even though they come from different backgrounds and means. ![]() Four women, whose lives cross at different stages and places, are the narrators of this book. ![]()
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