![]() ![]() It’s very easy to doubt yourself and second-guess yourself because that is what we’re taught to do,” she said, adding, “Push yourself a little further or surround yourself with people who really push you forward.” Her advice for other women in a similar situation is to “keep fighting. ![]() While writing Trust No Aunty, Qamar said she went through one of the most difficult times in her life, surviving a breakup and being a starving artist on employment insurance. Her family - and her aunties - are “learning to love it, slowly,” said Qamar of her book. The book, which is billed as a survival guide, also reads partly like a feminist manifesto and memoir, with advice ranging from how to choose a career to how to make a face mask to how to cook a cheap, filling meal. Much of her inspiration comes from growing up watching over-the-top scenes in South Asian soap operas and seeing her mother react dramatically in her daily life, she said, combined with the comic-strip art style of Roy Lichtenstein. ![]() “It’s like a hyperbolic version of the truth because there’s always some element of truth in fantasy.” “Anything I do, including everything in Trust No Aunty, is a reflection of what I’ve seen or what I’ve been through,” she said. ![]() Though Qamar admits not everything described in the book’s not-quite-200 pages read happened directly to her, the stories in it are rooted in truth, she said. ![]()
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