Research Catalog
When we were sisters : a novel
- Title
- When we were sisters : a novel / Fatimah Asghar.
- Author
- Asghar, Fatimah
- Publication
- New York : One World, [2022]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 23-214 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 327 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "In this heartrending debut, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. 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. As 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 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"--
- Subject
- Orphans > Fiction
- Siblings > Fiction
- Sisters > Fiction
- Uncles > Fiction
- Guardian and ward > Fiction
- Muslims > United States
- Pakistani Americans > Fiction
- Sexual abuse victims > Fiction
- Islamophobia > Fiction
- Gender identity > Fiction
- Gender identity
- Guardian and ward
- Islamophobia
- Muslim women
- Orphans
- Pakistani Americans
- Sexual abuse victims
- Siblings
- Sisters
- Uncles
- Family members
- Gender
- Muslims
- New Jersey > Fiction
- New Jersey
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-214
- ISBN
- 9780593133460
- 0593133463
- LCCN
- 2022004574
- OCLC
- 1294285965
- Author
- Asghar, Fatimah, author.
- Title
- When we were sisters : a novel / Fatimah Asghar.
- Publisher
- New York : One World, [2022]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Asghar, Fatimah. When we were sisters New York : One World, 2022 9780593133484 (DLC) 2022004575
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-214