Home can be as elusive as it is essential, and for billions of people across the globe, their relationship to home changes with time, circumstance, displacement, or identity. Curated and moderated by Omar El Akkad, this conversation explores how—for many—Canada can be home and not home all at once.

Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Buzzfeed News writer, moved to Canada from Sudan at age 12 and spent his teenage years trying on different ways of being. He shares his experiences in the acclaimed Son of Elsewhere. Navigating a new culture is what Dimitri Nasrallah’s protagonist is also attempting to do in Hotline, following Muna who moves from Lebanon to Montreal in a story that “sears the heart.” Debra Thompson provides a vital examination of the nuances of racism in Canada, and the United States, in The Long Road Home. This promises to be a nuanced, moving discussion about something we all seek.