Dalston CLR James Library hosts an evening with writer Beth Evans, joined by journalist and author Aamna Mohdin, to discuss Evans’ memoir Scattered. The conversation focuses on how migration is remembered within families, what gets passed on, and what is quietly left out of view.
Scattered traces Evans’ family’s experience of movement and change, looking closely at the details that often sit between official accounts and personal memory. Rather than approaching migration through policy or headlines, the book focuses on how these experiences are felt at home — in conversations, silences and fragments of story that stay with people long after events have passed.
Mohdin brings her own perspective as a journalist and as someone with a refugee background. After reporting from Calais during the 2015 refugee crisis, a conversation with her parents revealed memories she had not fully retained from her own childhood — a moment that echoes many of the themes in Scattered.
Together, Evans and Mohdin will discuss how families decide what to share with younger generations, why certain experiences fade or are protected, and how people make sense of these stories as adults. There will also be time for questions from the audience.
The event is free and open to all, offering an opportunity for readers, students and local residents to consider how personal histories of movement continue to shape life in Britain today.
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