![]() Asghar places these sentences on the verso and recto pages of this section: “A bunk bed in exchange for a father” and “What idiots. The sisters had innocently wished for new bunk beds – and lost their father while he was out buying them. The sisters search for parental figures, but are often left grasping – they feel stripped of a sense of belonging A VHS tape of his burial is sent to their house – the girls watch it on repeat surrounded by aunties. His body is sent from Pennsylvania to Lahore and buried in soil they can’t touch, in a “place he is from, and so we are from, but we know nothing about”. The day their father dies, murdered on the streets of America at the opening of the novel, their home turns into a “House of Sadness”. She was “born this way, belonging to them, trying to follow their breath”. Kausar “put her heart inside hearts” long ago, long before they became orphans. Her two sisters are all she has – even if the distance between them is growing. Adrift in the world without a mother or father, her heart is a little bit Noreen’s, a little bit Aisha’s. She stares and stares into the mirror, but alas “can’t find another heart to give”. When she walks past Bobby and his friends in the school cafeteria, she overhears him say: “ That’s my heart right there.” With flushed cheeks, she races to the bathroom. K ausar is the youngest of the three orphaned sisters in Fatimah Asghar’s grief-soaked and gorgeous debut novel.
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