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When we were sisters a novel5/21/2023 Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Penguin Random House) Along with Safia Elhillo, they are the editor of Halal If You Hear Me, an anthology that celebrates Muslim writers who are also women, queer, gender-nonconforming, and/or trans.Īs She Appears by Shelley Wong (YesYes Books)ĭictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (University of California Press re-issue)īe Holding by Ross Gay (University of Pittsburgh Press) They are the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Fatimah is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. This novel very tenderly examines the bonds and fractures of sibling-hood, names the perils of being three female-bodied, Muslim American children alone against the world, and ultimately illustrates how those who’ve lost everything might still make homes in one another.įatimah Asghar is the author of If They Come for Us and When We Were Sisters. Monsters aren’t just monsters they are subject to demons of their own.” Shared trauma disintegrates relationships as much as it strengthens them. As Bindu Bansinath writes of the book, “There is no idealism in When We Were Sisters. This week on The Write Question, host Lauren Korn speaks with Fatimah Asghar, author of When We Were Sisters, a novel that traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another.
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