Can You Run Away from Sorrow?

<p>How does emigration affect those left behind? The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led citizens to look for a better more stable life elsewhere. For the older generations however this wasn't an option. In this powerful and moving work Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic reveals the impact that waves of emigration from Serbia had on family relationships and in particular on elderly mothers who stayed. <br /><br />With nowhere to go and any savings given to their children to help establish new lives these seniors faced the crumbling country waves of refugees from Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina NATO bombing the failing economy and the trial and ouster of Slobodan Milosevic. <i>Can You Run Away from Sorrow?</i> poignantly depicts the intimacy of family relationships sustained through these turbulent times in Serbia and through the next generation's search for a new life. Bajic-Hajdukovic explores transformations in family intimacy during everyday life practices--in people's homes in their food and cooking practices in their childcare and even in remittances and the exchange of gifts. <br /><br /><i>Can You Run Away from Sorrow?</i> illustrates not only the tremendous sacrifice of parents but also their profound sense of loss--of their families their country their stability and dignity and most importantly of their own identity and hope for what they thought their future would be.</p>