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The challenges and victories of emigration—navigating dual identities and war traumas, adapting to a new country while staying connected to the old.

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  • Marjana & Amela Write

    The challenges and victories of emigration—navigating dual identities and war traumas, adapting to a new country while staying connected to the old.

  • Marjana Ababovic

    Bosnian by birth, semi-American by living. Mother, strategist, survivor. I think in two languages, live between worlds, and write to remember, resist forgetting, and make the invisible visible.

  • Amela Marin

    I write about food, literature, language and memory, often with a touch of humour and an occasional recipe.

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