Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir (Paperback)

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Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir (Paperback)
By Sofija Stefanovic

A memoir about the immigrant experience and life as a perpetual fish-out-of-water from the acclaimed Serbian-Australian storyteller, Sofija Stefanovic.

Stefanovic makes the first of many awkward entrances in 1982, when she is born in socialist Yugoslavia. The circumstances of her birth (a blackout, gasoline shortages, bickering parents) don’t exactly get her off to a running start. While around her ethnic tensions are stoked by totalitarian leaders with violent agendas, Stefanovic’s early life is filled with Yugo rock, inadvisable crushes, and the quirky ups and downs of life in a socialist state.

As the political situation grows more dire, the Stefanovics travel back and forth between faraway, peaceful Australia, where they can’t seem to fit in, and their turbulent homeland, which they can’t seem to shake. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia collapses into the bloodiest European conflict in recent history.

Featuring warlords and beauty queens, tiger cubs and Babysitters Clubs, Sofija Stefanovic’s memoir is a window to a complicated culture that she both cherishes and resents. Revealing war and immigration from the crucial viewpoint of women and children, Stefanovic chronicles her own coming-of-age, both as a woman and as an artist. Refreshingly candid, poignant, and illuminating, “Stefanovic’s story is as unique and wacky as it is important” (Esquire).

“Funny and tragic and beautiful in all the right places.” (Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy)

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Atria Books; Reprint edition (April 16, 2019)
  • Dimensions: 5.5” W x 0.8” D x 8.38” H


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