A review by tasleemreads
If They Come for Us: Poems by Fatimah Asghar

emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

So many gems in this little book, it definitely packs a punch!

✨"but I have blood from someone's father's father on my hands and no memory of who died for me to be here" - Partition.✨

If They Come For Us centres around the India-Pakistan Partition and the experience of a Muslim Pakistani American woman. Asghar explores themes of orphanhood, identity, lineage, diaspora, sexuality and violence. One that struck me is being from a homeland that you're disconnected to and an immigrant in a land that does not want you. The lack of security and safety is heart breaking to read and something a lot of diaspora kids can relate to.