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Refugee is a young adult literature novel by Alan Gratz published by Scholastic Corporation in 2019. The book revolves around three main characters from three different eras: early Nazi Germany , 1980s Cuba , and modern-day Syria .
Yousafzai met several of the girls whose stories are included in We Are Displaced in these refugee camps. [18] Speaking about the book, Yousafzai said that "what tends to get lost in the current refugee crisis is the humanity behind the statistics". [13] [20] She further commented that "people become refugees when they have no other option ...
Jenny Sawyer writing in The Christian Science Monitor credit's Fleming's ability to tell the personal story and frame it in the wider refugee crisis, but also notes the lack of Al Zamel's own voice, the story only ever being told by the third party narrator. [4] Hannah Solel writing in the Financial Times called the book gripping and moving. [1]
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, [1] the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California.
Strangers Either Way: The Lives of Croatian Refugees in their New Home (Croatian: Srijemski Hrvati. EtnoloŠka studija migracije, identifi kacije i interakcije ) is a book by Croatian ethnologist Jasna Čapo Žmegač [ hr ] .
In the Sea There are Crocodiles (Italian: Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli) is a 2010 novel and the third book by Fabio Geda. It is loosely based on the life of Afghan refugee Enaiatollah Akbari and is taken from a series of interviews Geda conducted with Akbari. The novel follows Akbari from his birth in Afghanistan to his arrival in Italy. [1]
Here, we compare the show to its source material, Zakiya Dalila Harris's debut novel. How Does Hulu’s ‘The Other Black Girl’ Compare to the Book? Author Zakiya Dalila Harris Weighs In.
The book opens with Sade's memory of hearing the two shots which ended her mother's life, a memory which recurs throughout the novel in her thoughts and dreams. Her memories of Nigeria are often set in contrast to her experiences of an alien England, while her mother's remembered words of wisdom give her comfort and strength.