Shera (right) and Saffiya co-authored the book about gutsy Asian women. Photo: AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star
Whenever Wan Shera Fadzlin visited bookstores, she couldn't find a children’s book that featured Asian women for her two young daughters. And over the years, she couldn’t get the absence out of her mind.“There were books celebrating white and Afro-Caribbean women, but almost none that reflected the heritage and values of Asian girls,” she says. “It was as if we didn’t exist on the global stage.”
She quietly held on to that thought, sowing the seeds to one day write the book she couldn’t find.
