Munira Tabassum Ahmed- The Clinging Thing
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6pm for 6.30pm Tuesday 30 JuneMunira Tabassum Ahmed in conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah
Iqra would like to be a good daughter, a good sister, a good woman, a good mother.
It has been made clear to her that people owe their lives to one another – to the driver who slows to a stop when she notices a jaywalker, and the roller-coaster operator who spots an improperly fastened harness . . . and Iqra’s mother, who raised her, and the mother before her, who tried to stop the blood.
After the loss of a pregnancy, Iqra returns to her mother's home in the place where she grew up. The past is porous, her recollections fail her, yet she is suffocating with memory.
A couple of hours out of the city, Seam River pulls Iqra back into a state of bewilderment. She revisits the stories of her parents and all the women before her, as dreams, memories, the uncertain and the impossible converge.
The future refuses to take form. She finds wonder.
Munira Tabassum Ahmed’s work has been published in Best of Australian Poems, Pleiades, The Adroit Journal, Meanjin, Australian Poetry Journal, Liminal, Cordite, and elsewhere. She was the 2022 Kat Muscat Fellow. The Clinging Thing is her first novel.
Randa Abdel-Fattah is an ARC Future Fellow at Macquarie University researching Arab and Muslim activism and social movements in Australia from the 1970s to date. She's also a former lawyer and the multi-award-winning author of 13 books for children and young adults published in over 20 countries. She's just released her first novel for adults, Discipline (University of Queensland Publishing).
Date
Tuesday 30 June 2026 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (UTC+10)Location
Upstairs at Gleebooks
49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe NSW 2037
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