What Will People Say

Poems

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  • I
  • had
  • to
  • fight
  • for
  • my
  • existence
  • before
  • I
  • was
  • even
  • out
  • of
  • my
  • mother’s
  • womb. If
  • I
  • didn’t
  • stop
  • fighting
  • then,
  • why
  • would
  • I
  • stop
  • now?What
  • Will
  • People
  • Say
  • follows
  • a
  • South
  • Asian
  • woman’s
  • journey
  • through
  • being
  • a
  • daughter,
  • and
  • later
  • a
  • daughter-in-law,
  • within
  • the
  • strict
  • confines
  • of
  • her
  • patriarchal
  • family.
  • Readers
  • watch
  • as
  • the
  • narrator
  • navigates
  • life,
  • trying
  • to
  • find
  • a
  • safe
  • place
  • for
  • herself,
  • until
  • she
  • finally
  • becomes
  • her
  • own
  • hero.Grappling
  • with
  • the
  • subjects
  • of
  • sexual
  • and
  • psychological
  • trauma,
  • as
  • well
  • as
  • mental
  • health,
  • this
  • collection
  • of
  • poetry
  • carves
  • a
  • path
  • beyond
  • the
  • guilt
  • of
  • wondering:
  • “What
  • will
  • people say?”
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