In the shadow of communist dictator Enver Hoxha’s powerful grip over Cold War Albania, five people fight to defy erasure in the face of exile and injustice.

An unlikely weightlifting prodigy. A woman whose identity has been stripped by the regime. A world-famous weightlifting coach haunted by the past. A beautiful and talented translator seeking redemption. A steadfast agent of the Party who discovers stature and purpose in executing Hoxha’s brutal directives.

From the closed world of post-World War II Albania to the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Exiled is a blistering epic chronicling lives broken apart by authoritarianism and rebuilt under the power of language, sport, imagination and pure will.

Forthcoming from Dzanc Books in September 2027.