gawwrgi reviewed If They Come for Us by Fatimah Ashgar
Review of 'If They Come for Us' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
This book is beautiful and tore my heart into a million pieces. There are beautiful poems about partition and as someone whose grandparents fled Pakistan during partition, it resonated so so much.
This part of this poem is something I will remember for a long time:
Everyone wants Kashmir but no one wants Kashmiris.
Aren't I a miracle? A seed that survived the slaughter & slaughters
to come. I think I believe in freedom I just don't know where it is.
I think I believe in home, I just don't know where to look.