Fatimah Asghar
Fatimah Asghar is a nonbinary American poet, novelist, and screenwriter of Pakistani-Kashmiri descent, co-creator of the web series Brown Girls and author of the poetry collection If They Come for Us and the novel When We Were Sisters.
Books
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1. When We Were Sisters
A lyrical, formally inventive story about three orphaned Muslim American sisters raised by an uncle after their parents die, who cling to one another while navigating neglect, displacement, and the strictures of patriarchy and community. Through fragmented vignettes and poems, the youngest sister traces grief, memory, and a fluid sense of self, including questions of queerness and gender. The result is a tender, searing portrait of how love, resilience, and chosen family can shape a life.
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