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Ava Homa
Born
January 11, 1981
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The Independent calls Daughters of Smoke and Fire one of the five biggest books of May
“A blisteringly powerful tale of standing up to oppression and terror . . . [a] haunting novel.”
—Independent
“Stark and elucidating . . . Through the courageous character of Leila, Homa paints a picture of many Kurdish women who have struggled against persecution and misogyny. . . . Homa’s remarkable novel serves as a potent and illuminating window into the persecution of the Kurds.” —BookPage Read more of this blog post »
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Daughters of Smoke and Fire
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2020
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15 editions
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Echoes from the Other Land
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2010
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2 editions
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Kurdistan + 100: Stories from a Future State
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Still: Short Stories Inspired by Photographs of Vacated Spaces
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2012
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Geographies of the Heart: Stories from Newcomers to Canada
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“I could answer that question. Women who lost all reason to live wanted their internalized burning rage to manifest on the outside too. A dramatic death testified to an agonizing life.”
― Daughters of Smoke and Fire
― Daughters of Smoke and Fire
“Sitting across the dinner table was a man who had paid a massive price for hoping and trying for a just world, who had fathered and then neglected me, who wasn’t aware that the rage he harbored had killed all other impulses in him […] And here I was, sliding down a similar inevitable path.”
― Daughters of Smoke and Fire
― Daughters of Smoke and Fire
“In the meantime, a massive and frightening bleakness inside me kept expanding and rattling. Sometimes I wrote about it in my diary, sensing that if I didn’t somehow fill the hollowness, it would swallow my heart and spit out my core. Other times I wished for the emptiness to scrape me off, a permanent erasure.
I was terrified that I was supposed to be living and I wasn’t, that I must have some prospect and I didn’t.”
― Daughters of Smoke and Fire
I was terrified that I was supposed to be living and I wasn’t, that I must have some prospect and I didn’t.”
― Daughters of Smoke and Fire
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