This chapter is a close reading of Sorayya Khan’s Noor and a critical examination of the gendered nature of citizenship through the rewriting of the tumultuous history of Pakistan and the 1971 war that created Bangladesh. Tracing how gender and gendered relationships affect and are affected by the projects of nationhood and the processes of national belonging; it traces the fault lines of national memory and the collective past, creating a new geography of memory by redefining the politics of belonging and citizenship. Exposing the gendered violence of nation-making, this chapter focuses on women’s experiences of violence during war and their subsequent displacement, dislocation, and trauma. The violence used to maintain and defend national borders is gendered and strategic in nature and is most significantly played out on the bodies of enemy women in the event of war or armed conflict. Reflecting on the shared experience of loss and longing, this chapter also examines the idea of home and unravels the complexity of one’s relationship with a homeland threatened by violence and marked by a collective traumatic past.