Fowzia Karimi

Debut novel about a family forced to flee their war-ravaged homeland, based on the author's childhood experience of emigrating from Afghanistan, illuminated by photographs and watercolor paintings.

Above Us the Milky Way

Debut novel about a young family forced to flee their war-ravaged homeland, forced to leave behind everything & everyone beloved & familiar. Old family photographs & lush watercolor paintings based on medieval illuminated manuscripts interweave with remembrances, ghost stories/stories of the war dead, & fairy tales to conjure a story of war, of emigration & immigration, the remarkable human capacity to experience love & wonder amidst destruction & loss, & how to create beauty out of horror.

Fowzia Karimi

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