…n the shadow of war. Read an excerpt | Buy the book My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, and what was meant to be a happy match quickly goes wrong. Shortly after, the country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee to Finland, where her son, Bekim, grows up to become a social outcast—not just an immigrant in a country suspicious of foreigners but also a g…
