Laila’s Story, author Mij Tanith

In January 2023, an Afghan man ... a long-term refugee living in Australia walks into the home of two older women in Adelaide. 

What begins as a simple request for help evolves into a year-long journey of connection, resilience, and unexpected friendship. Through the story of Laila, a single mother with five daughters, and her growing relationship with the author, this work explores the power of human connection across seemingly insurmountable divides of language, culture, age, sexuality, and faith. Laila and her daughters now reside in Australia.

This book documents the Circle’s year-long effort to support an Afghan single mother and her five daughters as they seek safety and stability in Australia.

The book traces an unexpected relationship that forms across language, culture, age, sexuality and faith. Written in a moving blend of narrative and poetry based on close observation and daily exchanges with the family, it offers a rare account of what it means to navigate Australia’s refugee system from inside the process. And it shows the way this can be shaped by community action and women’s networks in Adelaide.

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