My Name Is Bosnia

About this book

Nonpracticing Muslim Sabaheta is a university student when war breaks out in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Unlike many of her loved ones, she survives the conflict, first in the forest with her father and Bosnian guerrillas and then in Sarajevo, where she and her friends are forced to burn their books for fuel. After the war, Sabaheta, who renames herself Bosnia when she first begins to imagine the possibility of leaving her homeland, finally departs to find peace and to live fully as that other person one has so often dreamed of becoming.