From a Crooked Rib

novel by Farah

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In Nuruddin Farah
…wrote his first full-fledged novel, From a Crooked Rib (1970). It portrayed the determination of one woman to maintain her dignity in a society that believes “God created Woman from a crooked rib; and anyone who trieth to straighten it, breaketh it”; it was the first of Farah’s feminist works.
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