In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: refugees, refugee camps, muslims, albanians, kosovo, kosovo war, 1998-1999, kosovo (republic), history, 1980-2008, fiction