ASH AND OLIVE

With this debut collection, Elina Kumra signals the arrival of a striking new literary voice that evokes an astonishing range of lived experience. In each of these poems and stories, she gets to the heart of the human predicament, laying bare its myriad truths at root. Here are tales of identity and belonging, resilience and resignation, sudden upheaval and brutal dispossession. Stories that speak to the migrant experience in its full plenitude and the strange dislocations that arise whenev...