Memoir

Twice in living memory the wheel has turned—the Aswan Dam erasing Nubia, war emptying Sudan of 14 million. As I trace my family through both, and my own search for identity, I learn that exile need not erase us. Sometimes losing a homeland is how a people are reborn.

A woman loses her only child. Barely surviving the birth herself, she is left with intense health challenges. Searching for purpose, she becomes a Sacred Huntress, a Ferry Woman for the dying, a ballerina, writer, yogini and medium-- reconciling her concepts of death and motherhood with memories of...

What if there were cults that didn’t look like cults, where life didn’t play out in a compound or end with a Kool-Aid cocktail, and why would anyone join them anyway?

A woman loses her only child. Barely surviving the birth herself, she is left with lifelong health challenges. Searching for purpose, she becomes a Sacred Huntress, a Ferry Woman for men dying of AIDS, a ballerina, writer, artist and healer -- all while struggling to reconcile her concepts of death...