She wants a chance to tell the real story of their childhood and free herself from the nightmares that still haunt her.Īs the documentary unfolds, memories will be tested and the meaning of family redefined, but the love two young girls forged into bonds of sisterhood will help them move forward as the women they were always meant to be. A lifetime of lies has finally caught up with her.
She gambles that he'll prove to them both that their children-and their marriage-are a priority in his life.Ĭecilia herself needs more than time with her sister. When Cecilia asks Robin to be the still photographer for a documentary on foster care, Robin agrees, even though Kris will be forced to take charge for the months she's away.
She and the children need Kris's love and attention, but does Kris need them? But gazing through a wide-angle lens at both past and future, she sees that her marriage is disintegrating. Robin set aside her career as a successful photojournalist to create the loving family she always yearned for. Now superstar singer-songwriter Cecilia lives life on the edge, but when Robin is nearly killed in an accident, Cecilia drops everything to be with her. Secrets could still destroy them.Īs children in foster care, Cecilia and Robin vowed they would be the sisters each had never had.
Dimensions : 5.81 x 1.14 x 8.Love and loyalty made them sisters.Publisher : One World (October 18, 2022).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 one another. The youngest, Kausar, grapples with the incomprehensible loss of their 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.Īs 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 that she’s known or carve out a new path for herself. In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another.
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