A good wife: Escaping the Life I Never Chose

✍ Scribed by Zafar, Samra

• Book ID: 100688233
• Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 555 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 1443454869

✦ Synopsis

She faced years of abuse after arriving in Canada as a teenage bride in a hastily arranged marriage, but nothing could stop Samra Zafar from pursuing her dreams

At 15, Samra Zafar had big dreams for herself. She was going to go to university, and forge her own path. Then with almost no warning, those dreams were pulled away from her when she was suddenly married to a stranger at 17 and had to leave behind her family in Pakistan to move to Canada. Her new husband and his family promised that the marriage and the move would be a fulfillment of her dream, not a betrayal of it. But as the walls of their home slowly became a prison, Samra realized the promises were empty ones.

In the years that followed she suffered her husband's emotional and physical abuse that left her feeling isolated, humiliated and assaulted. Desperate to get out, and refusing to give up, she hatched an escape plan for herself and her two daughters. Somehow she...
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✦ Subjects

Zafar, Samra