I found the author's story to be inspiring. I cannot imagine what it is like to live in a Country where women aren't treated fairly and then to be divorced on top of that. The author's determination to have a career as a gynecologist despite the hostile work environment she was in due to her divorce and being a woman in Pakistan was so inspiring. I am so glad that she was able to get asylum in the United States and continue to assist women. She is truly a hero.

I enjoy books about strong Middle Eastern women who work to change oppressiveness toward women. Dr. Raana is a Pakistani woman who wants a good husband and a happy marriage, but gets involved with men who are abusive, controlling and emotionally childlike. Her marriages end in divorce and she must continue to make a life for herself and her son.

Reading about Dr. Raana's struggles with Pakistani men in a Muslim society was interesting and an eye-opening look at life for women in Pakistan..

The book is living up to its title though some declarations/assertions seem almost hard to believe. Still an eye-opening look at society. The ARC I've read has 215 pages, plenty of typos and no pictures. A bio must have pictures. Perhaps a better editor? Dr. Raana has picked a substandard co-author for her story. DeSimone does not know how to arrange her thoughts, some questionable actions amidst vague time periods into linear easy-to-understand empathetic progression.

Still it's an unsettling account (if also, a somewhat questionable one), gaining urgency in post #MeToo environment.

- I hope the publishers have spoken to each / many & tried to corroborate events & statements since everyone from MQM's leaders, Ch. Nisar, UN's Mansoor Suhail, EU Grants Head Rashid Khan to governmental bureaucrats, Sui Gas employees get mentioned - unfavorably & exclusively as demanding sexual favors from her.

- The book leaves things in limbo (for e.g. whatever happened to her Chapal apartment, her father, her brothers, her friends, her ex-husbands, Nashad, Dr. Sheela, Capt. Arif & every harasser who rose through the ranks). She has no final thoughts on 2019's Pakistan/SSGC/GCF, black magic & son's PTI-connection.

- The author does not mention on what grounds she sought U.S. asylum and the asylum process and how it got approved (though she says she became a U.S. citizen in Feb. 2019).

- Googled Dr. Raana: she was a very beautiful woman in her 20s & 30s. But the book is too short to fit in the various narratives of daily attempts at sexual exploitation/ harassment/ consent/betrayals (written like checklist points), her own bizarre & breezy biography, her U.S. life (uncertain and unknown: the Amazon bio says she currently works for 19 org.s everything from UN to CVS!).

- It looks like almost everyone who Dr. Raana met, propositioned her.
- Despite her constant denials, it looks like she believes in black magic.
- Some key family moments are missing:e.g. her 5 brothers reaction during her 5-year marriage? Did father attend house-warming party?Who looked after son during her Sui Gas tenure?
- And she keeps making the same mistake in marital / potential marital partners.

- I don't understand why Dr. Raana kept speaking to, meeting & taking calls of powerful dangerous (harassing) guys like M.Suhail & R. Khalid (for years & years) who were interested in her sexually w/out strings. It comes across as if she was stringing them along or liked the attention or thought they'd divorce their wives for her or something, even if that is untrue, it looks that way in this read-up.

- Victims like Dr. Shazia Khalid, Mukhtaran Mai and Abdul Waheed Khan mentioned.

- Funny lines:
'She had married a police officer and had all the money she needed.'
'I will never marry a married man. Particularly a happily married man.'"

All the best to Dr. Raana in her future personal and professional life.