Hedina Tahirovic Sijercic, Bosnia-Herzegovina's first Romani journalism graduate and a former Radio-TV Sarajevo host and producer, writes with raw and sometimes shocking honesty about growing up Romani in pre-war Sarajevo. "Rom like Thunder" is a memoir of both father and daughter, of life's joys and sorrows, of poverty and daily struggle in a Sarajevan Romani mahala, and the very real story of a young Romani girl's determination and drive to rise beyond everyone else's foregone conclusions about her destiny.

Hedina Tahirovic Sijercic is a Romani journalist, poet, author, and translator, whose accomplishments span decades and continents. Her experiential knowledge of her native Gurbeti Romani and her professional expertise as the translator of several books, plays, and film scripts into the dialect make her the ideal compiler of the first Gurbeti Romani - English dictionary to be published in decades. Containing over 17,000 lexical items, grammatical information, and example sentences illustrating real-world usage, this dictionary is an essential resource for both new learners seeking to...