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The Grieving Eye

A Compendium of Love and Loss

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Pub Date 14 Aug 2025 | Archive Date 31 Aug 2025

Biographies & Memoirs | Multicultural Interest | Nonfiction (Adult)

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LOSE A FATHER AND THEN A COUNTRY?

Lena Atoug's memoir is the story of a carefree childhood doubly fractured – first by a father's death, then by war. It charts her journey as a migrant through a world of new languages and customs, navigating adolescence, loneliness and lack of belonging.

Told with lyrical honesty and grace, this is a poignant meditation on identity, survival, trauma, memory – and the search for home, wherever it may be found. 

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LOSE A FATHER AND THEN A COUNTRY?

Lena Atoug's memoir is the story of a carefree childhood doubly fractured – first by a father's death, then by war. It charts her journey as a...

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