Kirkus Reviews2013-12-22
A poignant story of a happy partnership that encouraged one Pakistani woman to face her oppressors. Raised in the tolerant, diverse country of Kuwait to a Pakistani family of middle-class professionals, the author moved to Lahore for the first time in 1985 and felt the shackles of religious restrictions. The Kuwaiti war left the family bereft of her beloved uncle, and the author turned inward, becoming a "serious and spiritual young woman" more interested in her literary studies than in getting married. Working at the Imperial College of Business Studies in Lahore, she met a business student from a prominent newspaper family, Ednan Awais Shahid, and they fell in love and married in 1996; he admired her plucky, outspoken side, as did Ednan's father, who eventually convinced her that taking over the women's section of his popular newspaper, the .
