Heart Without a Home

Alina Gufran discusses her debut novel No Place to Call My Own, and the complex travails of its protagonist, Sophia

- Author Alina Gufran

"Both by design and unintentionally, movement has been a constant in my life — across cities, countries, especially cultural and linguistic worlds. Like Sophia, I've felt the pull of elsewhere, the search for something larger that feels more certain than just the idea of the self. I'm still amid that search, but certain ideas of home have changed for me — rather than a fixed location, home is perhaps an approximation of memories, relationships and seemingly mundane rituals."