Aarti Shahani

You come to realize that your family is quite wealthy.

Oh, yeah.

I love that.

How did you find yourself using that power as a child?

That message is very powerful for you.

And you seem as a child continuously torn between your mom saying, get your education and your dad sort of waving his money in your face and saying, follow my lead.

Describe that dance because you spent quite a bit of time also trying to curry favor with your father.

Lubna, you write very frankly on this relationship with your dad where...

you're, as a child, learning to play the game.

You also talk about being, in some ways, kind of a bratty rich kid, right?

Like drinking top shelf liquor, you splurge on American fast food, which somehow is a status symbol all over the world.

Right.

It's crazy.

Yeah.

And it becomes impossible to keep playing this game after something you discover one night when you were at your father's house.

And I was so horrified.

You discover that your father is raping the 12-year-old daughter of his mistress.

Yeah.

And that her mother knows she's facilitating it.

Yeah.