Author: Sulaiman Addonia
Publisher: Prototype
Paperback
Burley Fisher Books of the Year 2025
Elena says… ‘My mother gave birth to me in Keren, but I rebirthed myself in London that spring night as I topped Bina-Balozi on a bench in Fitzroy Square.’ Hannah’s narration moves in-between her lust for her date, ‘O. BB.’ on a rainy night in London, her arrival in the UK as a young asylum seeker, her life with her illiterate book-collecting father in Eritrea, and her mother’s passionate diary entries about another man. Sulaiman Addonia fills the limbo of the obscured asylum process with punching life.