![]() ![]() Compounded by grief, the trio at the heart of the story - Noreen, Aisha and Kausar - experience violent interactions with their uncle-turned-caregiver, and sometimes with each other, as they navigate their new reality. But while Asghar’s poetry explored violence on a massive scale, this book tackles the violence of everyday life. Unrest as a theme echoes throughout the novel. “I felt like for me as an artist, it was important to kind of, in some ways get through some of the big wave stuff so that I could dive into the smaller, more immediate stories that I wanted to tell,” Asghar said. This shift was on purpose, said the creative. Where Asghar’s sweeping poetry collection tackled a major period of history, When We Were Sisters focuses on the intimate and everyday. ![]()
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