I taste the places I’ve lived in, feel them explode in my mouth, melt on my tongue, sometimes it burns on the way down. Karachi is spicy and lemony, piping hot and crunchy, stewed and steaming. It’s a Marie biscuit drenched in chai on a crisp evening in my grandmother’s garden. It’s bakra eid 1998 […]
Misha Sumar
Misha Sumar is a Pakistani writer who moved to the United States in 2012 to study at Sarah Lawrence College. She has been a member of the Brooklyn Writers Collective since 2020 and currently lives in the Netherlands with her partner and their emotionally unavailable rescue dog.