Safia Elhillo on the inspiration behind Home is Not a Country and writing a world that reflects the one she grew up in.

Safia Elhillo on the inspiration behind Home is Not a Country and writing a world that reflects the one she grew up in.
Here is a lyrical love letter to the children of the diaspora, teaching us that there are other ways to find home. Home is not a country: it exists within all of us.
Pride is a deeply representative retelling that foregrounds Black people’s right to exist in a canon that has always pretended they do not.