A Memoir-in-Essays on Faith, Identity, and the Immigrant Journey
A reflective memoir-in-essays on faith, identity, and building a life far from home.
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$ 36.00
Exerpt
When people hear I’m from Africa, the first question they often ask is: “Did you grow up poor?”
The first time I heard that, I paused. Not because I didn’t have an answer, but because I had never thought about it like that. If we were poor, I never knew it. I had what felt like the richest childhood anyone could ask for. We had food, lots of it. Clean air. Laughter. Space to run free until the sun went down and our legs gave out. I grew up in Uganda, a country as lush and green as Washington State, where I’ve lived since 2015. With fertile soil and a warm climate, we never went hungry. We made toys from sticks, played soccer on grass fields we mowed with our bare feet, and built entire worlds from our imagination.
“Poor” is a relative term. What we lacked in money, we made up for in joy, freedom and the wealth of community.
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