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Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Insha Allah
Year
2023
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
Feral House
Summary
In March of 2020, the cosmopolitan daughter of Saharawi refugees travels to visit her family in the forgotten refugee city-camps scattered in the Western Sahara desert. What was supposed to be a long-awaited homecoming becomes a comically desperate adventure escaping border guards and surviving on candy bars, all the while trying to avoid losing her cool with unwanted and unlikely traveling companions. At the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak, Sara takes a flight from Paris to visit her grandmother in Western Sahara after over twenty years of living in Europe. Her two-week stay is unexpectedly prolonged as the borders close around her and fear of the virus grips the world. Stuck in the desert, she negotiates the culture clash between the traditional Saharawi society into which she was born and her Western upbringing. On her odyssey back home through a changing world, she faces starvation, the possibility of arrest, and kidnapping, as she attempts to cross the border into Algeria by any means possible.Alternating between tense, poignant, and funny, this heartfelt first-hand account explores life and lessons from the plight of the Saharawi people. Sara's story questions the meaning of cultural heritage and the universal desire to have a homeland. Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Insha Allah is Sara's first book and is the first memoir published in English by a Saharawi woman writer. The book includes historical and personal black & white images, color image insert, and maps of the Saharawi territory and Sara's journey.