OLIVE WITCH Paperback

Abeer Y. Hoque's "Olive Witch: A Memoir" is a beautifully written and poignant account of a young Bangladeshi girl's journey through identity, displacement, and mental health struggles across three continents. Born and raised in Nigeria until the age of thirteen, Abeer's world is uprooted when her family moves to suburban Pittsburgh, where she grapples with cultural differences, the pressures of academic excellence, and a profound sense of not belonging. The memoir candidly explores her descent into depression, culminating in a psychiatric hospitalization, and her subsequent move to Bangladesh, a country of her heritage but where she still finds herself an outsider. Interweaving prose with poems and atmospheric weather conditions framing each chapter, "Olive Witch" is an intimate and lyrical exploration of finding one's place, understanding heritage, and the long, often challenging, road home.