My Home Somewhere Else

<B>Set in Trieste, Italy, but spanning as far as Australia, Federica Marzi’s meditation on emigration, loss, love, and identity weaves together a multigenerational story about how hard it can be to let the wounds of the past heal. </B><BR/><BR/> Against the summery backdrop of rugged Adriatic Sea coastline, Amila, a young Bosnian, and Norina, an elderly exile from the region of Istria in Croatia enter one another’s lives. As a blooming youthful love forces Amila to keep secrets, the bitterness of another from decades earlier tears apart two sisters. In the forced and anticipated departures and arrivals that power <I>My Home Somewhere Else</I>, stories of emigration reveal just how much people share in common in their completely separate lives.