{"product_id":"foreign-in-a-long-familiar-salmah-salam-oiza-9781919192802","title":"Foreign in a Long Familiar Leap Year","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeign in a Long-Familiar Leap Year\u003c\/em\u003e is a luminous debut poetry collection by Salmah Salam Oiza that traces the twelve months of a life uprooted and replanted abroad. Written as a calendar of longing, the poems move through airports, rented rooms, prayer mats, and phone calls across oceans, asking what it means to belong when \"home\" is both everywhere and nowhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach poem is a timestamp - January as a one-way ticket, February cold cold loneliness, July when nobody texts back, December without snow. Together, they create a momentum of yearning: for God, for love, for language, for the familiar touch of a season that no longer arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith wit, intimacy, and lyrical force, Salam captures the contradictions of migration: gratitude and grief, distance and closeness, solitude and communion. Foreign in a Long-Familiar Leap Year refuses the trauma-only narrative of diaspora literature, offering instead a manual of faith, and tenderness in a year that will not be forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of contemporary African poetry, lovers of Warsan Shire, Safia Elhillo, and Kaveh Akbar, this collection is an affirmation that longing itself can be a home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Salmah Salam Oiza\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1919192808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781919192802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Salmah Salam Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.12d","brand":"Salmah Salam Oiza","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47761292951807,"sku":"9781919192802","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ddc759c-be04-4fc9-94a0-a5fd10b17535.jpg?v=1765514921","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/foreign-in-a-long-familiar-salmah-salam-oiza-9781919192802","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}