Miriam Bat-Ami discusses her book, “Two Suns in the Sky,” which explores refugees from Yugoslavia attempting to establish their new identities as Americans. The characters had to explore how to become Americans. Further, they wanted to explore the world, but were still behind a fence due to their refugee status. Bat-Ami interviewed many refugees that filtered into one of the main characters, Adam. Bat-Ami grew up in the 1950s, growing up Jewish and American, and connected very well with both cultures. She teaches multicultural adolescent literature, which explores the global nature of the literature of the United States. It is called “Two Suns in the Sky” because of a legend that goes when one sees two suns in the sky, the individual is not the same person.
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