A grandfather who crossed the Atlantic from Palestine as an orphan in the 1920s. A mother detained under a dictatorship in Argentina and released into exile. A writer's own restless search for belonging across countries and languages. 

Turn to the Stars is a lyrical hybrid memoir that traces exile and belonging across three generations through the language of the cosmos. Sparked by an astrological folio found in author Susana Sevilla Aho’s grandfather's office, the book explores an inherited geography of displacement.

Part family archive, part elegy, part star chart, Turn to the Stars asks what it means to find belonging in the cosmos when nations have failed us.

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