The Refugee Who Planted a Garden
When Hawa Abdi arrived in Clarkston, Georgia, in 2016, she wanted to go home. The Somali Bantu refugee missed the red soil of her village,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7.
When Hawa Abdi arrived in Clarkston, Georgia, in 2016, she wanted to go home. The Somali Bantu refugee missed the red soil of her village, the familiar call to prayer echoing across rooftops, the neighbors who spoke her language. Clarkston felt foreign in every way — the strip malls, the humid summers, the bewildering grocery stores stocked with food she didn't recognize.…
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