Never Home: Djamila Ibrahim’s Debut
Lineage and longing in a story collection that spans Addis Ababa and Toronto January 2018
To the exiled, the emigrants, and the displaced, a homeland can turn into a parent more powerful than any other. The desire to belong authentically to a nation, to align one’s identity markers and political ideals with its values, to be accepted by this authority and protected in return—it resembles the meaning one looks for in…