Luisa Conlon
2021We Became Fragments
Luisa Conlon, Lacy Jane Roberts
After losing his mother and four siblings in a bombing that left him injured, Syrian teenager Ibraheem Sarhan makes a new life for himself in Winnipeg, Canada despite the heartbreak of leaving his home behind. Narrated through Ibraheem's diary entries, we follow Ibraheem through his first week of high school in Winnipeg. It's a story about loss, resilience, and one young man's identity as he adapts to a new country while his home is at war.
We Became Fragments
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
James Ivory
Kris Kristofferson, Leelee Sobieski
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
