Book Recommendations From CVRAN Members (#3)
Today we’re continuing to share books recommended by CVRAN members. They are focused on immigration, refugee, and asylum seeker experiences around the world. Hope one catches your interest!
Do you have a book that you’ve finished and would be happy to share with someone else? CVRAN will have a book trading table at the January General Meeting. If you have a book to share, bring it to the meeting to match it up with a new reader.
And now, on to the book recommendations……
Non-Fiction
Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario describes the journey of an 11-year-old Honduran boy making his way to his mother in the US. Entwined with his experience are current statistics and details about the immigration experience and the political climate that pressures people to leave their homes.
Read more about this book:
- Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario (the author’s site)
- The United Nations Chronicle – Enrique’s Journey
- The Kirkus Review – Enrique’s Journey
Fiction
In Lost Children Archive, author Valeria Luiselli tells the uncomfortable story of a family road trip to the Southeast. The mother is working on a story about missing child refugees and Navario entwines her own work with refugee children into the world of this family trip.
Read more about Lost Children Archive:
- NPR – Real life informs a tense trip in Lost Children Archive
- NY Times Book Review – Valeria Luiselli traces the youngest casualties of the border crisis
- Democracy Now (YouTube video) – Lost Children Archive’s Valeria Luiselli bears witness to the US immigration crisis
Fiction
A CVRAN member says “I recommend North by Brad Kessler. This is a fictitious account of the life of Sahro, a Muslim girl from Somalia who became a refugee and traveled to South America and eventually through Vermont to Canada. It may well parallel the lives of real people who were forced to become refugees and journey to a new life. Because part of it is set in Vermont, it is especially interesting to Vermonters.”
Read more about North:
- Vermont Humanities – North – A reading and discussion of the novel
- The Center for Fiction – An excerpt from Brad Kessler’s North