—Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras, Gods of Tango
“Fowzia Karimi’s debut novel is an extraordinary book—one that is both witness to its time and an homage to Afghanistan, to family, and to what endures: stories and love and beauty. Inside it you will find humanity’s imagination so beautifully disclosed.”
—Micheline Aharonian Marcom, The Brick House, Creative Director of The New American Story Project
“Above Us the Milky Way is a philosophical, richly sensory meditation on memory, loss, nostalgia, and the inheritances of war. Illustrated with family photographs and exquisite, often surreal, watercolors, Fowzia Karimi offers us intimate portals to grief, displacement, and survival.”
—Cristina García, Here in Berlin