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WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
A TIME 10 Best Nonfiction Book of 2024 • An NPR Book We Love 2024 • A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 • A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024
“A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock…
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1 author picked Soldiers and Kings as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I don't read loads of non-fiction because as a historian I read so much for my research and writing, but this immersive ethnographic study of those who work to smuggle migrants into the US makes their world comprehensible. Migration is a global phenomenon that needs to be understood not just from the point of view of receiving countries but from those of places where people are leaving and how and why they are doing so.
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