When Stars Are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson
A refugee boyhood, in pictures
For you if
you want to understand someone else's world without being lectured at
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Omar Mohamed's true story of growing up in a Kenyan refugee camp, adapted as a graphic memoir. Years of waiting, of watching out for his nonverbal brother, of desperate hope around a school that might become a ticket out. The medium earns its power here — the visual storytelling gives space and weight to a life that statistics can't hold. One of the most empathy-expanding books in the catalog.
Where This Book Lives
- Topics
- somali civil war
Same pattern, different era
Different time, different place. The same thing keeps happening.
For the family bookshelf
Same idea, written for a younger reader. Good for reading together.
