![]() ![]() ![]() 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. She is the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of color. 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. Fatimah Asghar, author of If They Come for Us, is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. Ring Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un. Their brown fingers cradle porcelain, the news spreading fast and careless as a common cold. 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 Shop Now In a city, a man dies and all the Aunties who Aunty the neighborhood reach towards their phones. ![]()
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