Allan P. Gimi (1904-1997) lived a long life and lived it fully and on her terms. She was a teacher and a mother of two daughters and a son. At a time when many women preferred to be housewives, Allan chose to study and enter college and then become a teacher. Married to Jamshed D. Mistri who used to be her teacher, Allan filled her life with teaching, literature, music and travel to distant lands. This book by her daughter not only opens up the interior spaces of a Parsi woman but also sets her in the context of her times, times when some women dared to create a space for themselves both at home and outside.