A Bullet Beyond the Ocean

About this book

In Nyala, Senussi watches childhood companions become armed men concealed behind the kadamol as war consumes familiar streets and turns homes into spoils. His displacement leads from the burned neighborhood of Hay Al-Jir through camps in Adre and Abeche to the winter of Edmonton, Alberta. Across the ocean, a pouch of soil from his mother's grave becomes both evidence and memory. A Bullet Beyond the Ocean documents the rupture of Sudanese life while asking how a nation can be rebuilt by those who destroyed its shelter. It is a mournful, defiant account of exile, moral awakening, and the effort to transform private grief into historical witness.