Originally published: New York: Random House, 2015.

Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, ten-year-old Ana Jurić is a carefree tomboy: she runs the streets with her best friend, helps take care of her baby sister, and idolises her father. But when civil war breaks out, football games and school lessons are supplanted by sniper fire and air raid drills. Ana is lost to a world of genocide and child soldiers in the brutality of the Bosnian Croat conflict. A daring escape plan to America becomes her only chance for survival. Ten years later she returns to Croatia, a young woman struggling to belong to either country, forced to confront the trauma of her past and rediscover the place that was once her home.