Refugees in America : stories of courage, resilience, and hope in their own words / Lee T. Bycel ; photos by Dona Kopol Bonick ; foreword by Ishmael Beah.
In this book, eleven men and women share their extraordinary stories of fleeing life-threatening hardship in their home countries in search of a better life in the United States. Giving a voice to refugees from such far-flung locations as Eritrea, Guatemala, Poland, Syria, and Vietnam, it weaves tog...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Hope is the oxygen of my life / Meron Semedar, Eritrea -- Children who returned from a walk through hell / Noemi Perez-Lemus, Guatemala -- The imaginary girl / Asinja Badeel, Iraq and the Yazidis -- He threw garbage on me / Deng Ajak Jongkuch, South Sudan -- The apple lady / Sidonia Lax, Poland -- The walls have ears / Malk Alamarsh, Syria -- A river of memories / Vanny Loun, Cambodia -- Blind but the heart can see / Darwin Velasquez, El Salvador -- The life before and the life after / Kien Ha Quach Thien, Vietnam -- They bombed my church on Christmas Day 1998 / Wilita Sanguma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) -- Empty walls / Jawad Khawari, Afghanistan -- Acknowledgments -- Index. | |
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