I Am Yours

A Shared Memoir

by Reema Zaman

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Pub Date Feb 05 2019 | Archive Date Mar 07 2019

Amberjack Publishing

Biographies & Memoirs | Nonfiction (Adult)

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Description

It is time.

It is time to free our voice.

To speak is a revolution.

For too long, through the most intimate acts of erasure, women have been silenced. Now, women everywhere are breaking through the limits placed on us by family, society, and tradition. To find our voices. To make space for ourselves in this world. Now is the moment to reclaim what was once lost, stolen, forsaken, or abandoned. I Am Yours is about my fight to protect and free my voice from those who have sought to silence me, for the sake of creating a world where all voices are welcome and respected. Because the voice, without intimacy, will atrophy. We’re in this together. You are mine, and I am yours.

It is time.

It is time to free our voice.

To speak is a revolution.

For too long, through the most intimate acts of erasure, women have been silenced. Now, women everywhere are breaking...

A Note From the Publisher

Reema Zaman is an award-winning author, speaker, and teacher. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Narratively, The Rumpus, B*tch, Magazine, VIDA, SHAPE, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. Zaman was selected as the 2018 Oregon Literary Arts’ Writer of Color Fellow and serves as serve as Ambassador and Mentor for Girls Inc., Pacific Northwest. In Spring 2019, Zaman and NY Times bestselling writer Lidia Yuknavitch will kick off the first of their annual panel and reading series, “Women, Power, and Writing: Authoring a New Anthem,” co-hosted by Literary Arts and Corporeal Writing Center. Born in Bangladesh, raised in Thailand, and presently residing in Portland, Oregon, she holds a double B.A. in gender studies and theater from Skidmore College.

Reema Zaman is an award-winning author, speaker, and teacher. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Narratively, The Rumpus, B*tch, Magazine, VIDA, SHAPE, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere...

Advance Praise

"From the first word to the last, this story is phenomenal triumph of one woman's body and voice rising up and through a culture that would quiet her. " —Lidia Yuknavitch, NYT-bestselling author of The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and The Chronology of Water

"Astonishing—as light as a healing wand, and as deep as honesty can go. Reema Zaman has the voice and wisdom of leader. Do yourself a favor and read I Am Yours." —Rene Denfeld, author of New York Times bestselling The Child Finder

“This is a book girls and young women everywhere need and deserve. Reema captures the vulnerability of growing up with self-doubt that so many young women understand deeply, and through her story creates a guide to healing, resiliency, and strength. She sets an example for girls everywhere to claim their voice, own their power, and revel in both.” —Girls Inc. of the Pacific Northwest

“Lyrical and haunting, I Am Yours is an inspiration. In her writing as in her life, Reema Zaman is a force to be reckoned with, a fierce and brave advocate of women everywhere.” —Etaf Rum, author of A Woman Is No Man