I didn’t expect this book to stay with me the way it did.
Three women. Three different continents. Three completely different lives — and yet the same quiet, burning determination to survive on their own terms.
Smita in India, who has spent her entire life being told she is worth less because of the family she was born into. Giulia in Italy, watching her family’s business collapse while everyone looks to the men in the room for answers. Sarah in Canada — successful, composed, untouchable on the outside — suddenly facing something her career cannot fix.
None of them chose the hard road. The hard road chose them.
PULLQUOTE: “What Laetitia Colombani does in this book is something rare — she doesn’t make these women victims. She makes them human.”
Complicated. Afraid. And then, quietly, unstoppable.
There is a moment in each of their stories where they have to make a choice. Not the big dramatic choice you see in movies. A smaller, quieter one. The choice to keep going. To not ask for permission. To decide that their life belongs to them — even when everything around them says otherwise.
That moment hit me differently each time.
Because how often do we wait for permission to choose ourselves? How often do we shrink, adjust, apologize for taking up space?
This book doesn’t answer that question. It just holds it up and lets you sit with it.
Which woman in this story did you see yourself in most? Tell me in the comments. 🖤
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