**A top 5 Sunday Times bestseller** **Longlisted for the Bread & Roses Award 2025** 'Brave
powerful and deeply necessary ... A vital contribution to the Black British literary canon'
Afua Hirsch 'Fresh and important' Guardian 'An exceptional book' Sally Hayden 'Wonderful'
Financial Times 'An extraordinary story' Nish Kumar 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
'Mohdin explores her Somali family's refugee experience across continents in her wonderful
book' Financial Times
