This skill of Asghar’s is on full display in her debut novel When We Were Sisters.
What makes Asghar’s work special is her ability to imbue beauty and nostalgia into any moment, be it something completely mundane like ordering a pizza or a period filled with chaos and dread, like a family tragedy. Her work-which includes the breathtaking poetry collection If They Come For Us and the Emmy-Nominated web series Brown Girls-often centers around the themes of queerness, family, and the immigrant experience.
Asghar, a Chicago-based poet, writer, and artist, is the child of two Pakistani-Muslim refugees, both of whom died by the time she was five. he orders a slice with no sauce,” a young Asghar observes. When Fatimah Asghar pictures her father alive, she imagines him ordering a pizza.
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