Women Wide Awake: Stories, Sculptures, and Poems from Sindhi Folklore

"Into the face of eco-catastrophe, we find magic woven into these fabulist Sindhi tales, a multi-genre feast for the senses, transporting us into dimensions and textures rich with symbols. Women Wide Awake reminds us of the enduring power of story, to illuminate and to heal." --Renée Sarojini Saklikar, award-winning poet and author of the epic fantasy in verse series, THOTJBAP

"Women Wide Awake is a book, but it is also a woven fabric. From one perspective, the strands are storytelling, poetry, collage, and sculpture, and from another, oral research, imagination, and revisioning. Through each of these lenses, it is a compelling and moving work. But the one that awes me is the weaving together of a folklore across the distance of migration; the material that could not come in suitcases or boxes, Nimra and Manahil Bandukwala have gathered and carried home." --Sadiqa de Meijer, author of Leaving Howe Island and Alfabet/Alphabet: A Memoir of a First Language

"The visual elements of this book are beautiful physical embodiments and documentations of our collective histories and stories. The materials used to create these works--old wedding invitations, dried flowers, fabric from the artists' grandmother's saris--hold within themselves their own databases of memories and stories. A powerful way to tangibly and emotionally connect us to our past, present and future." --Misha Japanwala, artist and fashion designer