Farida

Farida

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Margo Beredjiklian
, Brad MULLER
, Jude Castillo
, Sandra Furlotte
, Catherine Lee
, Marilyn Stanley
, Noelle Walsh
, Alanna Virtue
, Dot Mann
, Andrea Pole
, Sebastian Schulman
, Agnes Marshall
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Natasha Andres
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Mary Montague
, Sandra Lackie
, Mark Gorman
, Rita Osullivan
, Don Gershman
, Mary Therrien
, Andre Labonte
, Joseph Chirayil
, Mary Lester
, Sarah Schwartz
, Melissa Poremba
, Barry Kazimer
, toni velthuis
, Jennifer Beyak
, Tanis Anne
, Beth Dekoker
, Eva Esmann
, Ryan Woods
, Joe Mitchell
, Brittney Warren
, Jeanette Burchaski
, Janet Meisner
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Linda MacIntyre
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Paula Ritchie
, Kym Marsh
, Kim Fenton
, Susan Grieshaber-Otto
, Sara Mody
, Michelle Arsenault
, Patricia Scott
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Rose Hately
, Kim Cappellina
, Robert Hykawy
, Meghan Barton
, Stephanie Trotter
, Lynn Bechtel
, Lindsey Andronak
, Paula Adam
, Suzanne Nesbitt
, Kartik Gupta
, Joan Clare
, Chris Lantz
, Margaret McKay
, Debbie Youngman
, Debbie Rodgers
, BJ Underwood
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Dorothy Wong
, Dorothy Wong
, Julie M.
, Claire Gear
, Patricia McKeown
, Kim Carswell
, Ken Gilmour
, Catherine Westerberg
, Rodney Cross
, Katie Macalister
, Anita Jones
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Lara Maynard
, Lisa Mallia
, Claudie Léveillé
, kristine hibbs
, Benita Hartwell
, Allison Dube
, Mary C. Kelly
, Kim Driscoll
, Crystal Collins
, Maureen Brownlee
, Anna Rowe
, Cait Erlenbach
, Lynn Andrews
, Sharon Forzley
, Rhona Brinkman
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Sarah Butler
, A Walsh

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01/11/2024

01/12/2024

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Farida, a young woman in Tunis, is passionate about reading and loves the French language. But she is compelled to marry Kamel, a brute of a man, who drinks, keeps mistresses, and beats her when she talks back. But she is defiant, and takes comfort from her secret reading. The country is a French colony and male-dominated. Finally after ten years she is granted a divorce by the courts and lives with her son Tewfiq. A smoking, independent-minded divorcee, she sees the country attain its freedom from the French and its arrival into modern times; the growth of her son into a young public servant; and her granddaughter Leila mature into an independent, educated young woman. This is a novel of modern Tunisia told through the lives of its women.