The Rumpus
A Conversation with Fariha Róisín
Australian-Canadian writer Fariha Róisín speaks about the influences behind her novel Like a Bird and the positive impact she hopes the book will have.
I value older women. I value women that love themselves. It has always been such a sigh of relief to witness that. Those moments have been very pivotal for me, so I wanted to write somebody who was a little cheeky and also just completely her own being. I don’t know what happened, but I was able to really write her quite effortlessly. Even though I didn’t really have a full grasp of who she was, it was easy to understand her on some level.
(Supplementary reading: this Guardian piece by Róisín about writing Like a Bird)