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'When We Were Sisters' is a story about loss and love between orphaned siblings : NPR's Book of the Day Poet and filmmaker Fatimah Asghar lost their parents at a young age. But they tell Scott Simon that they didn't grow up with a lot of stories that accurately captured the experience of being an orphan. In their debut novel, When We Were Sisters, Asghar describes life on the margins for three Muslim-American siblings left to raise one another.

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'When We Were Sisters' details the pain and perseverance of orphanhood

'When We Were Sisters' details the pain and perseverance of orphanhood

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Poet and filmmaker Fatimah Asghar lost their parents at a young age. But they tell Scott Simon that they didn't grow up with a lot of stories that accurately captured the experience of being an orphan. In their debut novel, When We Were Sisters, Asghar describes life on the margins for three Muslim-American siblings left to raise one another.

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Poet and filmmaker Fatima Asghar's debut novel is 'When We Were Sisters'