The Grieving Eye

<p><strong><em>What does it mean to lose a father and then a country?</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Lena Atoug's memoir is the story of a carefree childhood doubly fractured - first by a father's death then by war. It charts her journey as a migrant through a world of new languages and customs navigating adolescence loneliness and lack of belonging.</p><p></p><p>Told with lyrical honesty and grace this is a poignant meditation on identity survival trauma memory - and the search for home wherever it may be found.</p>