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HANE SELMANI
Author
A Country Called Brooklyn
Blood Fueds, Family Honor & My Sister's Murder
"My family had come to America in 1970 with hopes of freedom, not assimilation. That was for the weak. We were Shqiptarë – People of the Eagle – Albanians! The greatest of them all. Life was good--or so I thought till one fateful night when my sister was murdered. I was sixteen. She was twenty-six. Who was to blame, her murderer, the 500 year-old traditions we followed, or God?
With its arranged marriages, honor killings, and blood feuds, the world Hane inhabited is scarcely recognizable as twentieth century America, and yet her story—riveting, moving, and incredibly dramatic--unspools in A Country Called Brooklyn.
Jessica Papin
Dystel and Goderich Literary Management
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