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What happens when the home becomes a prison, and the girl becomes her own key? Shreshthta enters marriage at twenty, believing she's found her happily ever after. Instead, she discovers a slow, systematic erasure of everything she once was. Through daily criticisms disguised as care and constant corrections masked as love, she begins to disappear—one accommodation, one apology, one silenced opinion at a time. When she starts laughing at inappropriate times, everyone calls it madness. When she burns food and stares at walls, they say she's broken. When she finally collapses completely, they bring priests to fix her soul instead of doctors to heal her trauma. But what looks like falling apart is actually falling free. From temple steps where she's abandoned like garbage to divorce courts where she fights for her right to exist, from therapy sessions where she discovers her reactions were normal responses to abnormal treatment, to the literacy center she builds where other women learn their voices matter—this is the unflinching story of a woman who refused to accept less than she deserved. A raw, powerful debut that will change how you think about love, marriage, and what we ask women to sacrifice for peace. For every woman told she's too sensitive for wanting dignity—this story is for you.