My Sister Chaos

I don’t want to blend in, like  some of  the  others, slough away  the  past, adopt this new  place, or  rather  attempt  to be adopted by it,  as an orphan. No place  will  mother or father  me  now.  Countries are not mine and  I am not theirs. I feel  nothing for  them,  they are merely  temporary, political  intrusions into geographic cartography.

Precision and disarray, light and dark, a map that will tame a house, a house one can never know. In this searing debut, Lara Fergus startles the reader at every turn, weaving the politics of gender, race, language and sexuality through a story of war and peace, across geographies and histories. My Sister Chaos remains topical over a decade after it was first published.