Scattered : A memoir of three homecomings

**Longlisted for the Bread & Roses Award 2025**

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

‘Brave, powerful, and deeply necessary ... A vital contribution to the Black British literary canon’ Afua Hirsch

‘An extraordinary story’ Nish Kumar