My Many Phone Calls With Rasna Warah
Asha Ahmed Mwilu
An unlikely sisterhood forms through hours-long phone calls.
An unlikely sisterhood forms through hours-long phone calls.
I shouldn’t be writing about this with such brevity – because it deserves a solid long read – but when my family’s matriarch, my stoic maternal grandmother who I’m named after died, my mother, being the practical planner that she is and having made peace with her mortality like every good Muslim should, bought an extra sanda – that delicate item of clothing, the one one is wrapped in in the final goodbye – and stored it in her closet.
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