The story names the perils of being three Muslim American girls alone against the world, and it illustrates how those who’ve lost everything might still make homes in one another, Zhu adds. “Being a part of any kind of diaspora is such a beautifully haunting and strange experience, to kind of constantly be working back toward a place where your family has left, or were exiled from, or can’t go back to.” Kausar is the youngest, and deals with the loss of their parents as she also charts out her own understanding of gender the middle sister Aisha spars with her “crybaby” younger sibling as she desperately tries to hold on to her sense of family in a difficult situation and the eldest Noreen, does her best in the sister-mother role while also trying to create her own life. It traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who raise one another after their parents die. Describing the novel in CBC Books, Catherine Zhu writes, “When We Were Sisters” is about the bonds and fractures of sisterhood.
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