What does it mean to leave the country – and the people – you love? To be uprooted from the soil that gave birth to, and nurtured you? To abandon both your past and your hoped-for future and embark on a voyage of uncertainty? In Refugee Song, Feuchtwanger weaves together fragmented memories of his South African childhood, youth, and self-exile, with the stories of others – refugees, the displaced and dispossessed, voyagers – who were forced, or chose to leave their homes; his Jewish forebears, Africa’s colonized and colonizers, heroic and tragic characters from Greek mythology.