Before We Were Women: A Contemporary Women’s Fiction

Description

Three women. Three secrets. One summer that changes everything.

Anita Kumar was fifteen when shame stole her voice. Pregnant and afraid to disappoint her successful parents, she allowed others to decide her future-and her daughter’s. Years later, she buries her grief beneath competence, scanning every child’s face for the one she lost.

Born into wealth but raised in fear, Ashley Spady escapes a violent home only to find herself trapped in a cycle she doesn’t know how to break-until an unexpected diagnosis forces her to confront the truth about herself.

Adopted and blessed with an extraordinary memory, Robin Zymanski dreams of becoming a writer. But as questions about her origins deepen and her vision begins to fade, she must decide who she is when the future she imagined slips from view.

When their lives converge in the summer of 2009, the three women form an unlikely bond that reshapes their understanding of identity, forgiveness, and belonging.

Before We Were Women is a moving novel of resilience and sisterhood-about confronting the past, reclaiming your voice, and discovering that family can be found in the most unexpected places.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Sunita Reddy
Published: 05/22/2026
Publisher: CPR Books
ISBN: 9798995043218
Pages: 356
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 0.79″ H x 8.50″ L x 5.50″ W

About the Author
Reddy, Sunita: – Sunita Reddy, M.D, is a practicing Obstetrician and Gynecologist. She has worked and lived with her husband and two sons in Dayton, Ohio. She currently works at Kettering Medical Center. This is her debut novel.Her work as an OBGYN gives her the unique opportunity to counsel and guide patients through many complex issues they face every day. Her patients demonstrate tremendous resilience as they rise above tough challenges to better their lives through sisterhood, family support, and new medical technologies. In their tenacity and capacity for renewal, Reddy finds inspiration to tell their stories, offering a hopeful message about our human capacity for growth and redemption. Infertility, adoption, domestic violence, and teenage pregnancy are relevant current issues that need to be addressed. In Before We Were Women, Reddy encourages women to empower themselves and others through kindness, and to foster meaningful connections along the way.