Author Fatimah Asghar is the first winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

Fatimah Asghar's debut novel When We Were Sisters is a coming-of-age novel that follows three orphaned Muslim-American siblings left to raise one another in the aftermath of their parents' death.

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