Elsewhere, Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802129130)

In her new collection of stories, award-winning New York Times Notable author Leila Aboulela offers us a rich tableau of life as an immigrant abroad, and the challenges of navigating assimilation and difference. Elsewhere, Home draws us ineluctably into the lives of her characters as they forge new identities and reshape old ones.

A young woman's encounter with a former classmate elicits painful reminders of her former life in Khartoum. A wealthy Sudanese student studying in Aberdeen begins an unlikely friendship with a Scottish man. A woman experiences an evolving relationship to her favorite writer, whose portrait of their shared culture both reflects and conflicts with her own sense of identity.

Shuttling between the dusty, sunbaked streets of Khartoum and the university halls and cramped apartments of Aberdeen and London, Elsewhere, Home explores, with subtlety and restraint, the profound feelings of yearning, loss, and alienation that come with leaving one's homeland in pursuit of a different life.

Author: Leila Aboulela
ISBN-10: 0802129137
ISBN-13: 9780802129130
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Language: English
Published: 02/12/2019
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2019 pg. 85
Publishers Weekly 10/22/2018
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2018 pg. 36
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2018
Booklist 12/15/2018 pg. 82