The Language Between

Her mother spoke about the war the way someone else might describe the weather—casually, without ceremony, folding the dead into ordinary conversation. Morsal Yakuby grew up in Toronto absorbing these stories: born in Afghanistan, raised between Farsi and English, between her family’s world and her own. At the Gallery of Human Migration, her writer portrait explores what it means to carry another person’s survival inside your own body, and what it takes—on the page and on the canvas—to finally set it down.