Weismann spoke about how the event has community discussions in anticipation of the author’s visit. “It’s to promote education about human rights through literature.” “It’s a community reading program that the UI for Human Rights programs each year,” Weismann said. In regards to the UI’s One Community, One Book, Weismann stated that the program intends to say to its targeted demographic. foreign policy, and the global economy, and to allow more people to connect intimately, on the page, to our newest U.S. “I wrote this book, in part, to center the stories of young immigrants coming to this country from Central America, to situate these young people’s story within the context of history, U.S. Markham said she wrote The Far Away Brothers with the intention to create protagonists that young immigrants could identify with. “I get to hear about what they loved about home, why they left, what they find here in the U.S., and what their struggles and dreams and daily victories, small and large, look like.” “I have the benefit of listening to and learning from young immigrants,” said Markham. immigration policy, and an unforgettable testament to the migrant experience."-Provided by publisher.Related: Author T Kira Madden shares her memoir at Prairie LightsĪlong with being a writer, Markham is an administrator for an immigrant youth school in Oakland, California, which she helped start 12 years ago. With intimate access and breathtaking range, Markham offers a coming of age tale that is also a nuanced portrait of Central America's child exodus, an investigation of U.S. Soon these unaccompanied minors are navigating a new school in a new language, working to pay down their mounting coyote debt, and facing their day in immigration court, while also encountering the triumphs and pitfalls of life as American teenagers-girls, grades, Facebook-with only each other for support. In this urgent chronicle of contemporary immigration, journalist Lauren Markham follows the seventeen-year-old Flores twins as they make their harrowing journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, into the hands of immigration authorities, and from there to their estranged older brother's custody in Oakland, CA. But when Ernesto ends up on the wrong side of the region's brutal gangs he is forced to flee the country, and Raul, because he looks just like his brother, follows close behind-away from one danger and toward the great American unknown. Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination with the United States, the faraway land of skyscrapers and Nikes, while his identical twin, Raul, never felt that northbound tug.
"The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California-fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.
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