Everyday Stories

<p>This collection of short writings depicts different aspects of ordinary life: work love friends family sex as well as language identity immigration to the Wonderland and nostalgia for the lost home. Often ironic about herself and her characters Mima plays with genres to create a loosely-connected narrative throughout different stories. Her collection of short stories about the everyday include horror stories a turnip tale and a dictionary of unfamiliar words among others and a range of peculiar characters such as Little Girl Fear Titoslav (Tisi or T.) and Zoka a boy from the Balkans which are probably somewhere in South America. Seasoned with the author's street maxims the book is about the vicissitudes of life East meeting West and West meeting East and the ordinary that is extraordinary.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Everyday Stories</strong> were first published in Bosnian as <em>Obične Priče</em> in 2018 by Bratstvo Duša a well-known underground books and comics publishing house from Zagreb Croatia founded and run by the underground legend from ex-Yugoslavia Zdenko Franjić. The black-and-white illustrations by Elvis Dolić contribute to the book's unique character and indie feel.</p>