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Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls, Fatimah Asghar captures the experience of being a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America while exploring identity, violence, and healing.
In this powerful and imaginative debut poetry collection, Fatimah Asghar nakedly chronicles the experiences of a young Pakistani Muslim woman in America by braiding together personal and marginalized histories. After being orphaned as a young girl, Asghar grapples with coming of age without the guidance of a mother, questions of sexuality and race, and navigating a world that put a target on her back. Her poems bear anguish, joy, vulnerability, and compassion while exploring how violence persists within us, is inherited across generations, and manifests in relationships with friends and family and in one’s understanding of identity. Using experimental forms and a mix of lyrical and brash language, Asghar confronts her understanding of identity, place, and belonging.
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