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Scattered
- Author
- Aamna Mohdin
- Narrator
- Aamna Mohdin
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 6 June 2024
- Run Time
- 9 hours 26 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
**Longlisted for the Bread & Roses Award 2025**
‘Brave, powerful, and deeply necessary ... A vital contribution to the Black British literary canon’ Afua Hirsch
‘Fresh and important’ Guardian
‘An exceptional book’ Sally Hayden
‘Wonderful’ Financial Times
‘An extraordinary story’ Nish Kumar
When Aamna Mohdin travelled to Calais to report on the refugee crisis, she was confronted by a reality she had been outrunning for two decades: that she had been a child refugee herself.
Determined to piece her scattered family history together, Mohdin set off on a mission. Her journey would see her cross the world: from the rooftops of Mogadishu to a reunion with a long-lost friend in Amsterdam to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.
Scattered is a powerful investigation into the aftershocks of displacement, written by a young woman uniquely placed to explore the refugee experience. But it is also a story of homecoming in many forms – and a defiant celebration of family and love.
‘In a moment where refugees are rarely heard from, her voice breaks through’ Gary Younge
‘Mohdin explores her Somali family’s refugee experience across continents in her wonderful book’ Financial Times
Critics Review
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Aamna Mohdin is a gifted storyteller with a compelling story in which resilience and humanity triumph over tragedy and displacement. She is a trusted, honest and at times humorous guide on a journey that is fraught, brave and at times dangerous. In a moment where refugees are often talked about but rarely heard from, her voice breaks through not because it is loud but because it is lyrical
GARY YOUNGE
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A brave, powerful, and deeply necessary book. Aamna Mohdin excavates her past with grace, honesty, and unflinching courage - exploring survivor’s guilt, identity, mental health, and the resilience of the Somali diaspora. A vital contribution to the Black British literary canon
AFUA HIRSCH
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The startling honesty and intimacy of this depiction of one family’s chaotic quest to find sanctuary feels fresh and important
GUARDIAN
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Journalist Aamna Mohdin explores her Somali family’s refugee experience across continents in her wonderful new book Scattered
FINANCIAL TIMES
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An absorbingly written account of exile combined with journalistic research and rigour. Aamna is such a thoughtful writer, and her voice, and this testimony, offers an essential bridge between discourse on migration in Britain and the lived experiences of many Britons, which are too often disregarded
SALLY HAYDEN, author of the Orwell Prize-winning My Fourth Time, We Drowned
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The only way out of the crisis of exclusion sweeping across the Atlantic Ocean is storytelling that overcomes apathy and scapegoating in favour of empathy and hospitality. In so luminously recounting the story of her family, and the exodus from Somalia to the United Kingdom she and her parents have lived, Aamna Mohdin achieves an imaginative breakthrough that everyone should read
SAMUEL MOYN, Professor of Law and History at Yale University
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Reporting for the Guardian from the Calais refugee camp, Mohdin felt a jolt of recognition: she had once been a child refugee herself. From there she travels to Somalia, the country her parents fled, and back into her own past.
Guardian, The books to look out for in 2024
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Powerful and evocative
Bookseller, Editor's Choice
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Mohdin’s intimate portrayal of her family’s quest for sanctuary feels especially important in this moment ... Such stories are vital to foster understanding of the causes of the so-called ‘asylum crisis’, and the impact of violent border policies
NEW INTERNATIONALIST
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A moving testament to the power of memory and narrative, a book that broadens our understanding of what it means to find, and to fight for, a place to call home
THE VOICE
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Details
- Author
- Aamna Mohdin
- Narrator
- Aamna Mohdin
- Duration
- 9 hours 26 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 June 2024
- ISBN
- 9781526652621
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Memoirs, Refugees and political asylum, Narrative theme: identity / belonging, Migration, immigration and emigration
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Scattered, written and read by Aamna Mohdin.**Longlisted for the Bread & Roses Award 2025**‘Brave, powerful, and deeply necessary ... A vital contribution to the Black British literary canon’ Afua Hirsch‘Fresh and important’ Guardian‘An exceptional book’ Sally Hayden‘Wonderful’ Financial Times‘An extraordinary story’ Nish KumarWhen Aamna Mohdin travelled to Calais to report on the refugee crisis, she was confronted by a reality she had been outrunning for two decades: that she had been a child refugee herself.Determined to piece her scattered family history together, Mohdin set off on a mission. Her journey would see her cross the world: from the rooftops of Mogadishu to a reunion with a long-lost friend in Amsterdam to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.Scattered is a powerful investigation into the aftershocks of displacement, written by a young woman uniquely placed to explore the refugee experience. But it is also a story of homecoming in many forms – and a defiant celebration of family and love.‘In a moment where refugees are rarely heard from, her voice breaks through’ Gary Younge‘Mohdin explores her Somali family’s refugee experience across continents in her wonderful book’ Financial Times
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