Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul' Raven Leilani 'A no-bullshit must-read debut' Kaveh Akbar In Berlin's underground, where techno rattles buildings still scarred with the violence of the last century, nineteen-year-old Nila finds her tribe. In their company she can escape the parallel city that made her, the public housing block packed with refugees and immigrants, where the bathrooms are infested with silverfish and the walls outside are graffitied with swastikas. Escaping into the clubs, Nila tries to outrun the shadow of her dead mother, once a feminist revolutionary; her catatonic, defeated father; and the cab- driver uncles who seem to idle on every corner. To anyone who asks, her family is Greek,