My Cat Yugoslavia

ONE OF THE BOSTON GLOBE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

A love story about what it means to be an outsider from the most imaginative new voice in international fiction.
 
In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years later, her son, Bekim, grows up a social outcast in present-day Finland, not just an imm…