A good wife : escaping the life I never chose

Title
A good wife : escaping the life I never chose

Personal Author EPSB
Samra, Zafar

Summary
With almost no warning, Samra Zafar was married to a stranger at 17 and had to leave behind her family in Pakistan to move to Canada. In the years that followed she suffered her husband's emotional and physical abuse that left her feeling isolated, humiliated and assaulted. Samra tells her harrowing and inspiring story, following her from a young girl with big dreams, through finding strength in the face of oppression and then finally battling through to empowerment.

Year Published
2019

Physical Description
x, 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color portraits ; 23 cm.

Personal Subject
Zafar, Samra

Subject
Women -- Pakistan -- Biography
 
Forced marriage -- Pakistan -- Biography
 
Abused wives -- Canada -- Biography
 
Women immigrants -- Canada -- Biography

Genre
Autobiographies.

Added Author
Masters, Meg, 1960-

Summary
With almost no warning, Samra Zafar was married to a stranger at 17 and had to leave behind her family in Pakistan to move to Canada. In the years that followed she suffered her husband's emotional and physical abuse that left her feeling isolated, humiliated and assaulted. Samra tells her harrowing and inspiring story, following her from a young girl with big dreams, through finding strength in the face of oppression and then finally battling through to empowerment.

ISBN
9781443454865

Publisher
Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollinsPublishersLtd, 2019.


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Jasper Place362.829 ZAFBook30071000658083