Book description
“This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we’ve been told—and told ourselves—in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we’ve come to understand as order.” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams
When and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient…
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One nonfiction book makes my list because Markham’s work moved me while giving me so much to think about. Here in the US, immigration and asylum are among the most contentious issues. This book offers another perspective – sometimes familiar, sometimes less so - by moving the debate to Greece.
Markham not only reports on how residents on the island of Lesbos have responded to migrants (and the miscarriage of justice after a deadly fire) but also about how her heritage as the granddaughter of Greek immigrants to the US is a significant part of her identity.
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