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Newly married Seema Hyderi has been thrown out of her house for the third time in ten months. Unceremoniously evicted for raising her voice when her husband discussed their sex life with his father, it is a moment of inflection for Seema. But as she sits on the blue Samsonite, seething with rage at her husband's insensitivity and his family's draconian instincts to to "tame" her, Seema takes a momentous decision. She decides to walk away from the Hyderi residence, away from Momin and his family, and away from a marriage that left her feeling lonelier than ever. In delightful prose flirting with wicked humour and immense pathos by turns, this book tells the story of what happens when a woman decides to break free from an oppressive marriage and take back control of her life. Battling indecision, self-doubt and the stigma of being a South Asian woman on the path to divorce, Seema must shrug off all the ghosts of her past if she is to be reborn from the ashes of a crumbling marriage.