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How To Cure A Ghost - (a Noor favourite)

- Fariha Roisin

( Paperback )

Buy£10.99

A poetry compilation recounting a woman’s journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgiveness.

Fariha Roisin’s How to Cure a Ghost is a collection of her thoughts as a young, queer, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Her poetry explores race, gender, family, queerness, and life in a whitewashed world. It is heart-aching and emotional while offering a sense of hope in a world that desperately needs it. Displayed alongside gorgeous artwork — vibrant bodies, shapes, and animals — by Monica Ramos, this book feels intimate and alive. Really, it feels sacred.

Roisin unpacks shame, ancestral trauma and violence—weaving in Róisin’s personal experience of abuse at the hands of her mother, while also being trapped in a body, time and era where she’s being forced to confront the many things that have haunted her. The “ghost” she attempts to cure stands for many things: white supremacy, her mother, the patriarchy, Islamophobia, unkindness, her ancestors… Ultimately, it’s a book about survival, dedicated to survivors.

This is a shop favourite, adored by Noor and Peach and Mairi alike.