Kausar makes another decision, despite her age, and Meemo and his wife are cast out of their lives forever. They see the girls like their own kids, but after going out in public with them too many times, their uncle threatens Kausar by saying Meemo is sexually taking advantage of them (he is not) and reporting it to the police. He occasionally gives them money for groceries, but they live in one bedroom while Meemo and his wife, a couple from Lahore trying to get their green card, takes care of the sisters. They move into the zoo, which is a dingy spare apartment he has. However, he only wants the money that comes with taking care of them, and the good vibes it gives to the community that he’s such a charitable man. She agrees, and the sisters pack their bags. Their mother’s estranged brother, whose name is blacked out and erased from the physical page, decides to take the children, with Kausar making the decision for the sisters.ĭespite being very young when this happens, and having to make the decision, she is lured in by him by saying they can live in his zoo. It opens with the local aunties sobbing over them, calling them orphans and debating what to do with the three sisters. Their mother died years before the events of the novel, and the catalyst for this story is that their father has been murdered recently. When We Were Sisters is largely told from the perspective of the youngest of three sisters, Kausar. Three orphaned sisters find solace in each after a being taken in by their neglectful uncle.
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