Guilt in Gold is not your typical memoir. It's a mirror for every woman who was told to stay silent, smile through pain, and shrink herself to survive.
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In this gripping, poetic debut, Asra Amjad peels back the layers of a life lived between privilege and pain. Raised in a home filled with noise but void of safety, she unpacks the trauma of being the “good child,” the silence around spiritual violation, and the cost of becoming what everyone else needed, while quietly losing herself.
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What happens when a child stops feeling safe and grows up refusing to stay silent?
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This is a story of survival that looks like perfection, of faith that finds you in collapse, and of a woman reclaiming her softness on her own terms.
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If you’ve ever felt unseen in rooms you kept holding together, Guilt in Gold will sit beside you and help you finally feel heard.