He picks them up in Philadelphia and takes them to a city a “five-hour car ride” away. The girls are taken in by the man Kausar calls Uncle, the term always followed by a black bar, as if his name were redacted in an official document. She’s frightened and confused, but she worships her sisters fiercely. Kausar, the book’s narrator, is the youngest. Noreen, the oldest sister, is smart, pretty, and responsible Aisha is assertive and angry. Their parents were immigrants from Pakistan, so they are “familyless in America” except for one uncle, their mother’s brother, whom they don’t know. Their mother died years ago when their beloved father is murdered, young sisters Noreen, Aisha, and Kausar are orphaned. Sisterhood is the power that gets three young Muslim American girls through a neglected childhood in this debut novel.
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