No Fingerprints

The Words We Don't Carry

von Veronica L. Amartey

132 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

She came to Steinburg believing she was coming to somewhere better.Dede arrived from Madina carrying the myths many people inherit about the world beyond home. She believed Steinburg would be fairer, more orderly, more humane. A place where the rules worked and people were treated with dignity.Instead, she discovers another kind of reality.The stolen shopping bags are only the beginning.Then come the questions about where she is really from. The assumptions about her intelligence. The comments about her language. The unexplained rejections. The opened letters. The three hour waits. The polite smiles that hide something colder. The constant pressure to prove that she belongs.And because none of these moments is dramatic enough to make a scene, each one disappears almost as quickly as it happens.No fingerprints.So Dede begins to keep them.In a drawer.One by one, she collects the things nobody else thinks are important. The emails. The feedback. The questions. The encounters. The small humiliations. The unexpected kindnesses. The moments of grace. The people who see her clearly when others cannot.But the drawer becomes more than a place to store painful memories.It becomes a record.Then evidence.And eventually, a book.No Fingerprints is the story of a disabled African woman navigating migration, belonging, work, friendship, bureaucracy and the quiet assumptions that can make a person feel invisible. But it is also a story about dignity, resilience, friendship, faith, identity and the decision to keep building a life when the world keeps asking you to prove you deserve one.Because sometimes the greatest act of resistance is not fighting the system.It is refusing to let the system decide who you are.For every woman who has ever been underestimated, misunderstood, reduced to a category, or made to feel like she did not belong, this book is for you.You are bigger than the room that could not see you.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176437393
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published