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Stateless for 16 Years, exiled in Samoa for 17 months, Mikael Okuns publishes Memoir

Mikael Okuns, formerly known as Mikhail Sebastian, has published a memoir. Mikael Okuns, once stranded in American Samoa for 17 months due to statelessness, now lives between the U.S. and Latvia. His memoir Stateless in Paradise recounts the journey. The book, Stateless in Paradise: A Stranded Soul’s Fight for Freedom, is now available through Amazon and Lynx Publishers.