The trajectory of Zahra Al-harazi’s life defies expectations. Within this electrifying publication that travels from a small village in Yemen to a small city in Minnesota to a Calgary suburb, Al-harazi represents surviving two civil wars; her years as a, stay-at-home immigrant mother with little education; and how she became one of Canada’s most successful businesswomen.

Navigating two worlds, Al-harazi has struggled to discover her own way between East and West, religion and belief, freedom and obligation, family and desire, like and honour, despair and gratitude, war and battle again. With heat and courageous credibility, she recounts how it really is only through gratitude and persistence that people can find pleasure and the courage to build the life we want.