An experimental, polyphonic novel that pieces together the history and ongoing aftermath of a Cold War–era eviction—tracing the forced removal of an island community and the ripple effects of exile across generations—by shifting between archival fragments, intimate reminiscences, legal and bureaucratic texts, and satirical political asides; the narrative interrogates colonial violence, memory, displacement, and grief while showing how storytelling, testimony, and ridicule can both reveal and resist the erasures of place and people.

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