Cynthia Anderson

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How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town

Beschreibung

Over the past 15 years, Lewiston, Maine has improbably become one of the most Muslim towns in America. About 6,000 of the city's 36,000 inhabitants are African refugees and asylum seekers, many of them Somali.Anderson tells the story of this fractious yet resilient mill town.

Autor

Cynthia Anderson grew up in western Maine. Her collection of stories, River Talk, was a Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2014 and received the 2014 New England Book Festival award for Short Stories. Other work has appeared in the Christian ScienceMonitor, Boston Magazine, the Miami Herald, the Iowa Review, Redbook, Huffington Post, and others. Anderson lives with her family in Maine and Massachusetts. She teaches writing at Boston University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PublicAffairs
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781541767911
• ISBN-10: 1541767918
• Artikelnr.: 55393926