Hilowle's debut book is based on his grandmothers story. A book about feeling homesick, longing for a time that has passed and creating a new home with loved ones. 

Text and image meet in something that is as much a work of art as a document. Told from the perspective of a Somali woman, it simultaneously portrays a larger Somali-Swedish and general human experience. It is a story about the little man in the big world, about the forest, nature, medium-sized cities - and about Somalis in Sweden, one of the country's largest minority groups, who despite this have few platforms in the Swedish public.

"It is an intimate depiction - reminiscent of the diary - of people and places we rarely meet in Swedish books. I want to show the readers that everything that happens or happened in Somalia and Sweden does not necessarily separate us from each other. We may have more in common than many people think, how we are, for example, shaped by our loved ones – regardless of where we come from.” Salad Hilowle