**Longlisted for the Bread & Roses Award 2025**`Brave, powerful, and deeply necessary ... A vital contribution to the Black British literary canon' Afua Hirsch`Fresh and important' Guardian`An exceptional book' Sally Hayden`Wonderful' Financial Times`An extraordinary story' Nish KumarWhen Aamna Mohdin travelled to Calais to report on the refugee crisis, she was confronted by a reality she had been outrunning for two decades: that she had been a child refugee herself. Determined to piece her scattered family history together, Mohdin set off on a mission. Her journey would see her cross the world: from the rooftops of Mogadishu to a reunion with a long-lost friend in Amsterdam to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. Scattered is a powerful investigation into the aftershocks of displacement, written by a young woman uniquely placed to explore the refugee experience. But it is also a story of homecoming in many forms - and a defiant celebration of family and love. `In a moment where refugees are rarely heard from, her voice breaks through' Gary Younge`Mohdin explores her Somali family's refugee experience across continents in her wonderful book' Financial Times
