![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() The novel follows the lives of three orphaned sisters sent to live with their uncle. 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 is a 2022 novel by American writer Fatimah Asghar. 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. What no one will ever understand is that the world belongs to orphans, everything becomes our mother. ![]() The rain falls through the leaves and kisses us just so. An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in this lyrical debut novel from the acclaimed author of If They Come For Us Review of When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar In this world we were born into nothing but everything is ours: the sidewalk, the yellow markers in the road. ![]()
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