E-BOOK

Oh this cover is powerful. The contrast alone already tells half the story. Let’s give it a description that carries that same emotional weight:

For years, she mastered the art of surviving.
In classrooms, offices, and quiet rooms where her name was mispronounced and her pain politely minimized, she learned how to shrink without disappearing. From the outside, she was strong—disciplined, precise, composed. Inside, something was slowly fading.

Surviving Is Not Enough is the story of a woman who appears integrated but feels unseen, who adapts so well that she almost loses herself in the process. It traces the invisible cost of endurance—the silent exhaustion of constantly explaining, adjusting, and remaining careful.

Her return to Iran is not romantic or impulsive. It is a final, necessary act of self-preservation. What she finds there is not perfection, but recognition. Not escape, but belonging. In rediscovering her roots, she begins to understand that strength without tenderness is only survival—and that a life truly lived requires more than endurance.