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Dark and Light at the Same Time: A Conversation with Fariha Róisín

By Amy Reardon — 2021

Few things excite and comfort me these days like a conversation with a like-minded woman who has found her voice. So it went with Fariha Róisín when we discussed her debut novel, Like a Bird (September 2020, Unnamed Press), the story of a young woman unwinding herself from the inherited traumas of growing up in a female body, as a child of immigrants.

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Immigration and Assimilation