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clcountry's review
5.0
It’s hard to find words for this book. It’s beautiful but heartbreaking, inspiring but enraging. This book reminded me that I most love reading when reading helps me learn because it’s one of those books that smacks me in the face with how ignorant I am and how little I know about lives different from my own. The stories here are varied but all compelling, and I cannot recommend them highly enough.
victoriathuyvi's review against another edition
5.0
Important reading for everyone. I am upset and hope one day to work towards a future of more justice.
tinyy's review against another edition
3.0
The only memorable essays were Dina Nayeri's The Ungrateful Refugee and Kao Kalia Yang's Refugee Children: The Yang Warriors. If you're familiar with politics/immigration and have any sense of empathy, most of this will be common sense. If you're brand new, though, this would be a good starter book.
meghayes11's review against another edition
5.0
This book should be required reading. It is so hard to believe that there are people who experience these things in today's world...we have such a long way to go in the fight for compassion and equality. Bravo to the brave contributors who shared their stories.
I received this book in exchange for an honest review.
I received this book in exchange for an honest review.
annienoltehenning's review against another edition
5.0
This book is one you will return to time and time again to breathe in the stories and passages of these amazing writers.
filumeno's review against another edition
5.0
"Each displacement is a tale"
In my opinion, there's one thing that these stories have in common: they show that the experience you gain from travelling is the exact opposite as the one created by the displacement. They're both movement experiences, although one of them enriches you while the other one dispossesses you, from your identity, your singularity, your humanity.
Luckily these stories get to be shared, countering the mainstream narratives offered by medias and politicians, reminding us that behind each words composing a news item, there is an individual for whom the words are a world, while we scroll to the next tweet.
Highly recommended read.
In my opinion, there's one thing that these stories have in common: they show that the experience you gain from travelling is the exact opposite as the one created by the displacement. They're both movement experiences, although one of them enriches you while the other one dispossesses you, from your identity, your singularity, your humanity.
Luckily these stories get to be shared, countering the mainstream narratives offered by medias and politicians, reminding us that behind each words composing a news item, there is an individual for whom the words are a world, while we scroll to the next tweet.
Highly recommended read.
lucysod's review against another edition
5.0
about to put in a lot of want-to-reads of books from the authors in this collection