Book description
âA debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.ââBooklist
âElegant and playful . . . The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones.ââElle
â[Fatimah] Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed or flexible.ââThe New YorkerâŚ
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1 author picked If They Come for Us as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book brought me into yet another new world. Fatimah Asghar is a Pakistani, Kashmiri, Muslim-American who grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was orphaned as a child. The layers to her lived experience and perspective are so rich! If They Come For Us is an exploration of identity and coming of age in the absence of parental guidance. She exposed me to how issues of race, gender, sexuality, and violence manifest in other cultures and how it is so closely intertwined and reflective of the experiences of all marginalized people. It reinforced my understanding that we are truly moreâŚ
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