The Write Question logo and brand (2022) was designed by Molly Russell. The Write Question team for this episode was Lauren Korn, host and co-producer and Chris Moyles, co-producer, editor, and sound engineer. Girls That Never Die by Safia Elhillo (Penguin Random House One World) Registers of Illuminated Villages by Tarfia Faizullah (Graywolf Press) Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (Riverhead Books) “ Fatimah Asghar Redefines the Orphan Narrative” by Bindu Bansinath (The Cut) If They Come for Us and When We Were Sistersby Fatimah Asghar (Penguin Random House One World)
God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Penguin Random House) In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press) In Search of Shiva: A Study of Folk Religious Practices in Pakistan by Haroon Khalid (Rupa Publications India)įreshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (Grove Press) We the Animals by Justin Torres (Mariner Books)Ĭity of Glass by Paul Auster (Penguin Random House) 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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