{"id":48070,"date":"2021-05-12T11:12:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=48070"},"modified":"2021-05-04T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:23:21","slug":"catch-the-rabbit-by-lana-bastasic-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/catch-the-rabbit-by-lana-bastasic-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch the Rabbit by Lana Basta\u0161i\u0107 [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-48077\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/Catch-the-Rabbit-Lana-Bastasic-BookDragon-497x800.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/Catch-the-Rabbit-Lana-Bastasic-BookDragon-497x800.jpeg 497w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/Catch-the-Rabbit-Lana-Bastasic-BookDragon.jpeg 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/>Once upon a time, two Bosnian girls arrived at kindergarten with paper-doll selfies. Sara\u2019s mother made hers, garbed in pink and glittery. Lejla\u2019s was blank. \u201c[I]t\u2019s not like I wear the same clothes every day,\u201d she insisted, as if already aware that future incarnations \u2013 as Leja, Lela, Lili, Lala \u2013 would be necessary to survive. Despite remaining inseparable BFFs in college, their lives diverge, and 12 years pass without contact.<\/p>\n<p>Lejla breaks the silence by calling Sara, who escaped to Dublin. Their strained conversation leaves Sara feeling \u201cdirty with my mother tongue,\u201d yet Lejla\u2019s claim that her 20-years-missing brother is in Vienna convinces Sara to fly to Zagreb, bus to Mostar, pick up Lejla, and road-trip to Vienna. The journey becomes a startling confrontation of memory, boundaries, disappearance, and identities bartered, elided, imagined, and betrayed.<\/p>\n<p>Lana Basta\u0161i\u0107\u2019s intense examination of female friendship provides a portal into the tumultuous recent history of the former Yugoslavia. Awarded the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature, Basta\u0161i\u0107\u2019s compelling and enlightening first novel arrives in the U.S. in her own agile translation, sure to engage urbane anglophone readers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Catch-the-Rabbit-\/pid=9744417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, May 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018, 2021 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, two Bosnian girls arrived at kindergarten with paper-doll selfies. 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