This month I am focusing on reading the ARCs that I have on my bookshelf – it is #arcaugust on bookstagram and people are sharing the stories that they have received to read and review. This morning, I decided to pick up a memoir that interests me: A Good Wife by Samra Zafar. I stood in line at the OLA Super Conference early on in the year to receive a signed copy of the galley. The book was available in stores from March 2019.

At seventeen, Samra Zafar had to leave her family behind in Pakistan and move to Canada when she married a stranger. In the years that followed, she suffered her husband’s physical and emotional abuse. Desperate to get out and refusing to give up, she hatched an escape plan for her and her 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.
I am a couple of chapters in, and already my eyes have been opened to practices that I had not really accepted still exist.
Would you read this memoir?
© Colline Kook-Chun, 2019
Sounds really good. I’m putting it on my TBR list. Thanks.
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It is good so far. I will put up a complete review when I have finished reading it.
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Wow. This sounds amazing. I love reading how ordinary people have made their lives better over seemingly insurmountable odds. I can’t wait to read this.
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This is definitely a 5 star memoir. Here is the link to my book review if you are interested: https://collinesblog.com/2019/08/31/book-review-a-good-wife-by-samra-zafar/
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Thanks so much
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