Somewhere to Belong (The Street Trilogy, #1)

The first lines of The Street Trilogy were put to paper just months after Alexandros Grigoropoulos'(*) death and the ensuing riots (December 2008). It was completed three years later, around the time that the Indignant Citizens Movement began losing its steam (October 2011). During the period in which this book was being written, Greece experienced financial collapse, came under the control of the IMF, while at the same time, it saw the disintegration of all its social institutions, as they had been set up following World War II and redesigned after the restoration of democracy in 1974. The author's aim was to capture a teenager's experience during this period, when «the action» seemed to have moved from the comfort of the living room and a closed circle of friends to the streets and city squares. A teenager who had just had just been deprived of their immortality (Grigoropoulos murder), freedom (IMF), and the pursuit of their dreams (financial crisis). In the story "Somewhere to Belong," the savage crowd of football fanatics at the stadium acts as a metaphor for everything that transpired daily in the streets and city squares. In an attempt to follow his own course in life, the hero is torn, stumbles, suffers, but manages to get back on his feet and finally rid himself of his past... However, his old demons still come back to haunt him...