Safe in Chicago but never far from their flight

Ataee family

By Fariba Pajooh When Soghra Ataee and her four children go grocery shopping in Chicago, they melt into the crowd. Their tortuous 7,500-mile, 15-year journey to get here from Afghanistan is their private secret. But the memory of that trip never escapes them. “I have been like a stray cat, picking my children up in […]