A poetic counter-memory text, Hyphenated Lives: Native Diasporas interweaves a constellation of family stories, witness testimonies, diplomatic dispatches, international relief reports, newspaper clippings, and archival photographs to illuminate obscured realities of survival beneath an ideology that has yet to release its grip. This tale is as much about a fractured survivor family as it is about the making of a nation in the wake of the Ottoman Empire's collapse and the enduring legacies it left behind.