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Through the lens of three Muslim-American children, When We Were Sisters sits the poignant intersection of grief, South Asian queer identity, and growing up too soon
On 4 May 2023, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker Fatimah Asghar was announced the inaugural winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for their debut novel When We Were Sisters.
The Prize, established in 2020, celebrates “creativity and excellence in fiction by women and nonbinary writers in Canada and the United States.”
This win is particularly noteworthy for two reasons. First, Asghar is of South Asian descent—their father was Pakistani and their mother, Kashmiri; they both died when Asghar was five.
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Second, the novel documents their personal vulnerabilities of being a nonbinary person.
Set in the US, When We Were Sisters is a coming-of-age story of three orphaned American Muslim siblings—Noreen, Aisha, and Kausar.
The book begins with the news of their father’s murder by hate crime “spreading fast and c