The Bookshelf with Jennifer Morrison - Ep. 18: "When We Were Sisters" with Fatimah Asghar
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Join Jennifer in conversation with author, poet, and screenwriter Fatimah Asghar to discuss their first novel, "When We Were Sisters". A finalist of the 2023 New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, the story follows 3 orphaned sisters who despite losing everything, find home in one another. Fatimah shares their own life experiences as an orphan, and how they have survived navigating both the publishing world and Hollywood as a writer on Disney's "Ms. Marvel". Find out what life advice (there's a lot!) Jennifer will take from both the novel, and this incredible interview with Fatimah Asghar.
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