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02225aam a22003495i 4500 001 4827F200720F11EDB6E4AA0447ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221202010048 008 190412s2019 onca 000 0aeng 010 $a 2018487478 020 $a 1443454869 020 $a 9781443454865 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-pk--- $a a-pk--- 100 1 $a Zafar, Samra, $e author. 245 12 $a A good wife : $b escaping the life I never chose / $c Samra Zafar with Meg Masters. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Toronto, Ontario : $b HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2019] 300 $a x, 342 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "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. 600 10 $a Zafar, Samra. 650 0 $a Abused wives $z Canada $v Biography. 650 0 $a Abused wives $z Pata $z Pata $v Biography. 650 0 $a Arranged marriage $z Pata $z Pata $v Biography. 650 0 $a Arranged marriage $z Canada $v Biography. 650 0 $a Divorced women $z Canada $v Biography. 650 0 $a Divorced women $z Pata $z Pata $v Biography. 700 1 $a Masters, Meg, $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l TAPB572 $d 20221202014105.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4827F200720F11EDB6E4AA0447ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search