when we were sisters a novel fatimah asghar

When We Were Sisters tenderly examines the bonds and fractures of sisterhood, names the perils of being three Muslim American girls alone against the world, and ultimately illustrates how those who’ve lost everything might still make homes in one another. The youngest, Kausar, grapples with the incomprehensible loss of their parents as she also charts out her own understanding of gender Aisha, the middle sister, spars with her “crybaby” younger sibling as she desperately tries to hold on to her sense of family in an impossible situation and Noreen, the eldest, does her best in the role of sister-mother while also trying to create a life for herself, on her own terms.Īs Kausar grows up, she must contend with the collision of her private and public worlds, and choose whether to remain in the life of love, sorrow, and codependency that she’s known or carve out a new path for herself. In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, the acclaimed author of If They Come for Us traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Time, Vox, PopSugar, Autostraddle.

WINNER OF THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION a knife-sharp story of self-discovery.”- People “This exquisite debut wrestles with gender, siblinghood, family, and what it means to be Muslim in America-all through the lens of love.”- Time.They wrote the novel out of a place of pain and isolation, but the finished work pays homage to makeshift families and alternative communities. When We Were Sisters tenderly examines the bonds and fractures of sisterhood, names the perils of being three Muslim American girls alone against the world, and ultimately illustrates how those who’ve lost everything might still make homes in each other. When We Were Sisters is their first novel, but they know orphanhood intimately, having lost both parents before they turned 5 (their mother fled Jammu and Kashmir following Partition violence). The youngest, Kausar, grapples with the incomprehensible loss of her parents as she also charts out her own understanding of gender Aisha, the middle sister, spars with her ‘crybaby’ younger sibling as she desperately tries to hold on to her sense of family in an impossible situation and Noreen, the eldest, does her best in the role of sister-mother while also trying to create a life for herself, on her own terms.Īs Kausar grows up, she must contend with the collision of her private and public worlds, and choose whether to remain in the life of love, sorrow and codependency she’s known or carve out a new path for herself. When We Were Sisters: A Novel Hardcover Asghar, Fatimah Published by One World (2022) ISBN 10: 0593133463 ISBN 13: 9780593133460 New Hardcover Quantity: 20 Seller: booksXpress (Freehold, NJ, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Hardcover. In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another.

When we were sisters a novel fatimah asghar