“Chasing the Echoes of Home: A Journey Through Memory and Migration”
“Maman,” I said, “Do you have anything more to say?”
But she continued to study the carpet as if there were a message hidden there among the flowers and leaves.
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Author’s Note: In 1983, when I was twelve years old, my family lived in Beirut, Lebanon, where my father was a United Nations peacekeeper. I’ve written extensively about my experiences in Peacekeeper’s Daughter: A Middle East Memoir (Thistledown, 2021). “Like a Flock of Homesick Cranes” is a personal essay drawing from my memories of life at the centre of a civil war.
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