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.
