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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 Kumar When 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