The Sami Problem

'I am between two homes, an old one and a new.'In Paris, Marie Engmo lies in the dark, quietly nursing her newborn daughter. More than a thousand miles to the north, her grandmother – her áhkku – dies. Marie is untethered by grief, caught between the new life she has built and the unyielding pull of family. On the long journey home, and as she travels further away from her child, she starts to write about her áhkku and her Sámi heritage. But how can words ever capture the richness of áhkku’s life, or explain the generations of violent oppression her people have faced?Fierce, original and deeply personal, The Sàmi Problem explores how to be other in a world that has sought to erase you, and the bonds that connect us, even as we move apart.