A good wife : escaping the life I never chose / Samra Zafar with Meg Masters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zafar, Samra, author.

Masters, Meg, author.

Contributor:

Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abused wives--Canada--Biography.

Abused wives.

Abused wives--Pakistan--Pāṭa--Biography.

Arranged marriage--Pakistan--Pāṭa--Biography.

Arranged marriage.

Arranged marriage--Canada--Biography.

Divorced women--Canada--Biography.

Divorced women.

Divorced women--Pakistan--Pāṭa--Biography.

Zafar, Samra.

Pakistan.

Canada.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

x, 342 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]

Summary:

"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. Desperate to get out, and refusing to give up, she hatched an escape plan for herself and her two daughters. Somehow she found the strength to not only build a new future, but to walk away from her past, ignoring the pleas of her family and risking cultural isolation by divorcing her husband. A Good Wife 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." --Publisher's website.

Contents:

Part 1

Chapter 1 Mehndi p. 3

Chapter 2 Time Bomb p. 19

Chapter 3 The Proposal p. 35

Chapter 4 Rukhsati p. 53

Part 2

Chapter 5 Samra-Begum p. 79

Chapter 6 A Good Wife p. 102

Chapter 7 Turbulent Waters p. 120

Chapter 8 Shopgirl p. 147

Chapter 9 The Sticky Web p. 166

Chapter 10 Dark Days p. 184

Part 3

Chapter 11 In Business p. 205

Chapter 12 School at Last p. 220

Chapter 13 Time Away p. 240

Chapter 14 Talaq, Talaq, Talaq p. 258

Part 4

Chapter 15 On My Own p. 279

Chapter 16 The Way Forward p. 293

Chapter 17 Freedom p. 308.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.

ISBN:

9781443454865

1443454869

OCLC:

1077271500

Publisher Number:

99980361243