Moving from Yugoslavia to Cuba, then Greece, and finally New York, the sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued Sasha makes her way through a labyrynth of loyalties and betrayals, sex and addiction, politics, bigotry, violence and love.

With an episodic narrative that is at once jagged and soulful, Natasha Radojcic has created a memorable new character, a strong and spectacular survivor-- clear-eyed and intelligent, hard-living, always loving. YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE HERE is a visceral, original adventure, the running-form and running-to that we somehow recognize as growing up.

HOMECOMING

Halid, a Muslim soldier returns home after the war in Sarajevo, only to find that his troubles have just begun. Although his village was spared from heavy combat, it was nontheless destroyed. The Muslims and Christians, previously tolerant friends, are now blood enemies. Over the course of three days Halid aimlessly wonders, disoriented and at times confused, experiencing his town as shifting landscape of new alliances and old grievances, and his missteps threaten to pull into a downward spiral of insanity and ultumately, tragedy.