WexCast: Sa'dia & Bushra Rehman

For this episode, we're happy to present a recent public conversation between Sa'dia Rehman and their sister, Bushra Rehman. Sa'dia's work has been featured in the Wex's winter-spring exhibitions via the solo show "the river runs slow and deep and all the bones of my ancestors / have risen to the surface to knock and click like the sounds of trees in the air". Bushra is an acclaimed poet and storyteller; her latest book, the coming-of-age novel "Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion," was a New York Times Book Review editor's choice and was named one of the best books of 2022 by NPR. The talk shares the warm and supportive dynamic between the siblings as it illuminates their respective working processes, how they approach medium, and how the history of their family has fueled what they created. It begins with a reading of Bushra's fiction and poetry.