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**LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR BOOKS 2018**
In the French port town of Calais, famous for its historic lace industry, a city within a city arose. This new town, known as the Jungle, was home to thousands of refugees, mainly from the Middle East and Africa, all hoping, somehow,âŠ
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In Calais, France, on Europeâs northern edge, migrants from across the Middle East and Africa settled, hopeful that they would eventually make it across the English Channel.
While they waited, they built lives, relationships, and the ramshackle edifices that poverty permitsâthe ingredients of communities. Only to be attacked, sometimes by neighbors, other times by police. In this graphic novel, Evans brings Europeâs refugees to life in their humor, hope, and despair.
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