Fractured Life

<p>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. <br> 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.</p>