Fractured Life

Abandoned by her parents as a three-year-old, and ultimately leaving her home country India for a new life in America as a young mother of a three-year-old son, this is not only an immigrant’s story, but a poignant and powerful memoir that is at first, one of sadness and continuing adversity, but ultimately one of strength, purpose, and the universal triumph of hope. It is a story of dislocation, disruption, and despair, and brings focus to the silencing of girlhood and womanhood and how with time, love, and support we can work our way out of that silence.
      Shabnam Samuel was twenty-seven when she moved to the US, carrying with her a troubled marriage, an almost estranged husband, and a three-year-old son. Hoping to create a fresh start from everything that was holding her down, it took Shabnam twenty-five years of trials and tribulations to finally find her voice, her strength, and her place in this world.

Abandonata de parintii sai in varsta de trei ani si parasind in cele din urma tara natala India pentru o noua viata in America ca tanara mama a unui fiu de trei ani, aceasta nu este doar povestea unui imigrant, ci si o un memoriu puternic care este la inceput, unul al tristetii si al adversitatii continue, dar in cele din urma unul al puterii, al scopului si al triumfului universal al sperantei.