By Aisha Ashraf
An autistic Irish immigrant in a cross-cultural marriage, Aisha Ashraf is the archetypal outlander, writing to root herself through place and perspective.
Published in The Rumpus, The Maine Review, River Teeth, HuffPost and elsewhere, her work explores the legacy of trauma, the nature of being an outsider and the narrow confines of belonging.
She currently lives in Canada.
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These scenes are a million miles away from the views out of our car window. I could not live in a city….do you enjoy city life?
We don’t live in the city, we’re close to the lake-shore and have a conservation area next-door 🙂 I don’t know if I could live in a city. I grew up on a farm in Ireland, so I’m really a country bumpkin!