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Deep North Bios

Shadir Mohamed was a 19-year-old farmer when the Somali Civil War uprooted him and his family, forcing them to flee to a Kenyan refugee camp where terrorists continued to target them as Somali Bantu.

Fardusa A. Abdo escaped to Yemen when the war destroyed her small town in southern Somalia. She single-handedly raised seven children, two of whom with disabilities, before they escaped the breakout of war in Yemen.

Abdihamid A. Muhumed grew up in a family of nomadic camel herders until gunmen killed his father and brother and stole their animals. He fled to Kenya where he lived for years in a desolate refugee camp before reuniting with his family in Vermont.

These three extraordinary stories offer a rare first-hand account of the challenges, opportunities, hardships, and hope of Somali refugees resettled in Vermont.

Deep North will be published by Onion River Press and available for purchase on September 26, 2023.

Coming Sept. 26, 2023

DEEP NORTH

Stories of Somali Resettlement in Vermont

By Shadir Mohamed, Fardusa A. Abdo, and Abdihamid A. Muhumed

Collected, edited, and afterword by Brad Kessler Onion River Press

September 26, 2023

978-1-957184-38-8

$14.00 paperback