My War, My Child

A powerful debut novel by an award-winning author who "offers the reader a glimpse into the lives of women who are largely ignored by society."- Meera Ekkanath Klein, author of the award-winning My Mother's Kitchen: A Novel with Recipes and Seeing Ceremony
A law student at Dhaka University, Afsana's future is bright. Her greatest concern is whether or not her parents will approve of her marriage. When they do, the young bride knows she can face anything the future holds.
Then war breaks out.
Six years later, she encounters a ghost from her past-her first husband, presumed dead in the fighting.
My War, My Child vividly and compassionately tells the story of Bengali birangona, the war heroines, whose lives were brutally torn apart by the 1971 War for Independence. Though the fight resulted in the freedom and independent nation so craved by the Bengali people, hundreds of thousands of women's lives were devastated, leaving them to scrape together the pieces and carry on as best they could-often with children and orphans forced upon them.
This is a piece of history you've never heard before, an inside look at the resilience and strength of women around the world.

Bharati Sen was born in Yangon, Myanmar and spent much of her childhood growing up in South Asia in West Bengal. She completed a Master's degree in International Relations and discovered a passion for writing about social disparities and cultural differences. Her debut award-winning book, On the Banks of River Sarayu, is a compilation of nineteen stories reflecting the lives of ordinary South Asian women within bittersweet tales. The book was awarded finalist in the Women's Issues category of the 2020 International Book Awards as well as the 2020 finalist for the MiPA Midwest Book Award in the category of Short Stories. Bharati currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her husband and two sons.