ABEER HOQUE: “Seam” grew out of a series of interviews with the birangona, the rape victims, the war heroines of Bangladesh’s liberation struggles in 1971. The birangona were so named by the Bangladesh government, an honoring and recognition of their trauma, and yet they often live on the margins of society, ostracized by their own families. […] Tarfia weaves her own family’s story in with the history of Bangladesh: her grandmother bathing in the pond when the war begins, her parents uneasy immigrants in America, the wild and riverine landscape of Bangladesh crossed with the big sky yellow plains of Texas, haunting memories of her dead sister, her own troubled presence as an interviewer, and of course the voices of the birangona. More here.