I Did Not Survive. I Just Refused To Stop - Paperback

by Missfit Writes (Author)

"They told her who to be. She took notes."

I Did Not Survive. I Just Refused To Stop. is the extraordinarily abnormal account of an average Desi Muslim girl who spent twenty years watching, questioning, laughing, grieving, and refusing to look away.

Part memoir. Part essay. Part poetry. Part something that has no name yet.

This hybrid collection moves through identity, faith, womanhood, beauty standards, marriage pressure, cultural expectations, grief, belonging, relationships, and the contradictions of trying to become yourself while everyone else has already decided who you should be.

The book also includes 16 original full-colour bilingual Urdu-English posters, created as an integral part of the work rather than decoration - adding another visual language to the stories, questions, and contradictions running through the book.

Raw. Honest. Sometimes funny. Often uncomfortable. Always real.

For anyone who has ever felt invisible, too much, not enough, or simply wrong.

"You were never wrong. You were just in the wrong room."