Ebook {Epub PDF} Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir by Sofija Stefanovic

 · Stefanovic, Sofija. Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir. New York: Simon and Schuster, exile, memoir, Serbia. Previous post Next post. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment. Name * Email * bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 40 secs. A “funny and tragic and beautiful in all the right places” (Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestseller author of Furiously Happy) memoir about the immigrant experience and life as a perpetual fish-out-of-water, from the acclaimed Serbian-Australian bltadwin.ru Stefanovic makes the first of many awkward entrances in , when she is born in socialist Yugoslavia.4/5(1). "Sofija Stefanovic’s beautiful memoir Miss Ex-Yugoslavia depicts the elegant transit of a girl becoming an artist. This is a story we yearn to know: How does a girl lose her childhood, family, and nation, yet nurture her memories, dreams, and art?Released on: Ap.

A funny, dark, and tender memoir about the immigrant experience and life as a perpetual fish out of water, from the acclaimed Serbian-Australian storyteller. Sofija Stefanovic makes the first of many awkward entrances in , when she is born in Belgrade, the capital of socialist Yugoslavia. Unpolished Gem with a touch of Stasiland: a funny, dark and tender memoir about growing up between the lunacy of Yugoslavia's civil war and suburban Australia.. Sofija Stefanovic was born into a country destined to collapse. With Yugoslavia on the brink of war, her family was torn between the socialist existence they'd always known and the pull of stability on offer in the distant land of. In , when I was 22, I was in a beauty pageant, and it involved wearing a bikini and high heels. The pageant was Miss Ex-Yugoslavia, a small event run by the ex-Yugoslavian community of.

Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir [Stefanovic, Sofija, Stefanovic, Sofija] on bltadwin.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir. "Sofija Stefanovic’s beautiful memoir Miss Ex-Yugoslavia depicts the elegant transit of a girl becoming an artist. This is a story we yearn to know: How does a girl lose her childhood, family, and nation, yet nurture her memories, dreams, and art? Stefanovic hits all her marks, and she keeps us in her thrall.”. Sofija Stefanovic is a Serbian-Australian writer in New York. Her memoir Miss Ex-Yugoslavia features warlords, beauty queens and everything in between. She hosts This Alien Nation – a monthly celebration of immigration (at Joe’s Pub), and the bestselling literary salon Women of Letters New York (at City Winery).