you want us where a person comes from mean is it a matter of genes o'berg place or is origin just a matter of children as. you just saw how every home is a happenstance on you're born somewhere driven out of their donate your kidney to science over here look at lucky people can influence their happenstance they leave their home not because they have to but because they want to. just to follow your origins are down to luck and this luck has an enormous influence on your birth brings with it in alterable facts a birth happened somewhere fun and through that people see you as a certain person in his book origins. travels home to his birthplace on the banks of the drain a river in bosnia when he visits his grandmother and records her memories the book looks back at tito's yugoslavia and its collapse in the 1990 s. nationalism and war forced the family to flee from it because. i don't he's wanted to look at my own biography and of my family and to find the stories that were the the present always dips into the past if we took the same route today my mother and i would have ended up standing in