Grandma Non-Oui

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Grandma Non-Oui </em>is a biographical novel that tells the life story of a woman from Split Croatia. In her youth Grandma Nedjeljka-or Non-Oui as she goes by the nickname given to her by herFrench teacher (a literal French translation of the syllables of her nickname Ne-Da Croatian for 'No-Yes')-falls in love with an Italian soldier Carlo at the end of the second World War and later moves to Sicily to marry him. Written as an exchange between Grandma and Nedjeljka her granddaughter and namesake a conversation unfolds that encompasses a broad range of times and places between 1938 to 2016 moving back and forth temporally from past to present and geographically between Castellammare del Golfo in Sicily and Split Croatia. Their imagined conversations reveal the lives of these two different women and the deep cross-generational bond between them as they discuss cross-cultural love private life and family as well as the public sphere of war politics and migration.</strong></p><p><br></p>