**A Guardian book to look out for in 2024**A powerful, evocative and deeply personal journey into the refugee crisis past and present In 2015, journalist Aamna Mohdin travelled to Calais to report from the frontlines of the refugee crisis. It was on her return to London, when she discussed her experiences with her parents, that she came face-to-face with a reality she had been outrunning for nearly two decades: that she had been a refugee herself. Aamna herself had arrived in the UK aged seven, after her parents fled war-torn Somalia. Determined to piece their scattered family history together in the present, she set off on a mission: first into the past, to uncover her parents- experience of displacement in their own words; and then on the road, first to Somalia, and then to the refugee camp in Kenya that was her home in early childhood. Along the way, Aamna would not only confront the history and legacy of the devastations of war and displacement, but also came f
