About the Book

This book narrates the devastating tale of the protagonist “Ritika” and her struggle with the American judicial system in the nearly a decade long custody fight for her son in court. The book navigates the reader through the various intricacies and loopholes of the judicial system in the states. How some may work in favor of the powerful and against the weaker party. Sheetal weaves the story from her own insights from her experience of the system and her tackling of it, giving it a multi-dimension and gripping narrative about the protagonist Ritika’s Indian culture and traditions by her refusal to back down in the face of oppression from her ex-husband and the American Family law legalities. A heartbreaking tale of a yearning mother and her grief as she faces a long separation and then alienation from her child in a foreign country with just herself as strength. This book will grip you in its clasp. We as the reader go through author’s account of the intricacies of the judicial system and how the protagonist remained steadfast in the face of adversity and desolateness that she faces in a foreign land with no one to turn to but herself.