Iman Sissay Iman Sissay i(16587246 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Sudanese
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1 New Life Iman Sissay , 2019 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Growing Up African in Australia 2019; (p. 71-77)

'I think my mother is going to die tonight.

'It begins with no light. My siblings and I hear people yelling and running, as if there is some kind of disaster - an apocalypse, maybe. There is an odd wailing, almost like a howl, that comes intermittently. My siblings and I start to panic. We run up and down stain in the brownstone building, trying to find our par-ents. We don't know where we're going, but we want to escape the unilluminated premises and the horrible sound.'  (Introduction)

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