In her latest book, Indignity, Ypi blends archival material with a fictionalized account of her grandmother's childhood in Thessaloniki and her arrival in Albania, exploring themes of memory and dignity.
I got an offer for you before we move on. If I were to give you your $2,350, which is the cost to renunciate your citizenship, and I paid you your first class, you know, flight to whatever communist country and $20,000, would you give up your [American] citizenship?, Bet-David asked. Name me a communist country, responded Allannah, the flannel-wearing anti-capitalist he was debating. Whichever communist country you want to go to.
When, in a last-ditch effort to save the Provisional Government, two liberal grandees demanded that they be let in, one of the sailors replied, 'We will spank you! And if necessary we will shoot you too. Go home now, and leave us in peace!'
"Black April is not a time for glorifying successes and contributions to America. This is about why do we exist in America at all? It's because we rejected Communism. That reason still exists and we should be calling the world's attention to it."
