Home Is Not a Country
Safia Elhillo
Nima wishes she could be someone else. She feels disconnected from her mother, who grew up in another country, and does not feel accepted in her suburban town. A bullied Muslim immigrant teen living with her widowed mother in a post-9/11 American town, she dreams of a homeland she has never seen. Written in free verse, the novel follows her questions about identity, belonging, family, and the life she imagines might have been hers.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
