Reflections on a life immersed in language as an art.

Growing up in a bi-cultural family, I had a front row seat to the beauty and the struggle of intercultural communication.

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Displaced: A Memoir

Displaced [working title] is a memoir in progress extracted from my academic linguistic research of the same name. The memoir expands on this research, exploring the effects of language and identity loss due to structural violence during World War II in Serbia, and its effects on one family in particular: mine.