{"product_id":"foreign-in-a-long-familiar-leap-year-paperback","title":"Foreign in a Long Familiar Leap Year - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSalmah Salam Oiza\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeign in a Long-Familiar Leap Year\u003c\/em\u003e is a luminous debut poetry collection by Salmah Salam Oiza that traces the twelve months of a life uprooted and replanted abroad. Written as a calendar of longing, the poems move through airports, rented rooms, prayer mats, and phone calls across oceans, asking what it means to belong when \"home\" is both everywhere and nowhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach poem is a timestamp - January as a one-way ticket, February cold cold loneliness, July when nobody texts back, December without snow. Together, they create a momentum of yearning: for God, for love, for language, for the familiar touch of a season that no longer arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith wit, intimacy, and lyrical force, Salam captures the contradictions of migration: gratitude and grief, distance and closeness, solitude and communion. Foreign in a Long-Familiar Leap Year refuses the trauma-only narrative of diaspora literature, offering instead a manual of faith, and tenderness in a year that will not be forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of contemporary African poetry, lovers of Warsan Shire, Safia Elhillo, and Kaveh Akbar, this collection is an affirmation that longing itself can be a home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 48\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.12 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47936917405944,"sku":"9781919192802","price":15.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/dvQPCph1Rn9781919192802.webp?v=1769669704","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/foreign-in-a-long-familiar-leap-year-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}