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Oh ok thanks Meelie, yes that’s a better spot for this topic. I’ve amended my comment so it makes sense and links back to the OSS picks.
Currently reading the ARC of The Beekeeper Of Aleppo. It is truly a brilliant piece of work. I highly recommend this read (releasing on August 27).Also, loved reading We Are Displaced by Malala.
I can recommend What Is the What by Dave Eggers. It's the tough story of Valentino Achak Deng, a child refugee from South Sudan, who was forced to leave his village during the Sudanese Civil War and became a "lost boy of Sudan".
@Pam and @David, thanks, happy reading! @Apeksha and @Alda thanks those books sound interesting, I’ll check them out of my library.
@Emma, my pleasure! @Laura thanks for the reccomendation. Please can you clarify the author? I’ve searched and found a few books with that title. Thanks!
Have to add: I just finished Fruit of the Drunken Tree - it is phenomenal both in its content and Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s writing style! Considered both a refugee related book and a feminist fiction novel (with thriller genre and coming of age narrative) exploring the choices women especially make during the challenging times of Pablo Escobar’s era in Bogotá, Colombia.Lots to discuss related to OSS ethos actually...I have recommended it as a OSS book pick too as hopefully it is affordable and accessible in paperback worldwide at various places.
Thanks for those suggestions above - I’ve just got them from my library, look forward to reading! Happy reading :)
Hi! I have the perfect book suggestion for next read. The book is called Hassana Kaur by Shah S. Sahota. She's a self published author on Lulu. The book is about women, gender equality, sexuality and feminism. The book is on my currently reading list! ( I think I posted in the wrong area earlier.)Here the link: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/ShahSSa...
@Kate I highly recommend...The Devil"s Highway - a true storyBy Luis Alberto Urrea
Great thread!I can recommend:
The Last Girl by Nadia Murad
The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi, the 'Oskar Schindler of Asia' by Robin De Crespigny
Unbreakable Threads by Emma Adams
No Friend But The Mountains by Behrouz Boochani (Kurdish journalist writing from Australia's refugee detention centre on Manus Island, PNG - written via covert WhatsApp messages, and brilliantly translated)
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Frallion
No Man Is An Island by Adele Dumont (an account of working in a remote detention centre for refugees in Australia)
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Ooh. I heard that's pretty bad. People waiting for years in a refugee holding facility without word if they can leave or if they could come into to Australia. Thanks for the recommendation!
@Laura thank you for the author clarification, I will look it up.
@Natasha - ohh great suggestions, I have The last girl I need to read and I look forward to seeking out those other titles! Thanks!
@Kate I would be curious to hear your thoughts about The Devil's Highway if/when you read it. It was very powerful for me, especially since I had just finished a summer of humanitarian work in the Sonoran desert (and we found full skeletal remains during an outing). 💔
Hello everyone,Not a book, but a poem on the related topic that I wrote. I wrote it after seeing so many news stories about people having to flee their homes all over the world. I also composed music for it.
If (The Refugee)
If I stay home
I will starve
If I remain where I grew up
I will be poor
If I linger where my roots are
violence will take me
If I refuse to leave
I will be forced to do
dreadful things
If I knock on your door
It's not because I want to
It's because
I want to live
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If (The Refugee)
I would strongly recommend City of Jasmine by by Olga Grjasnowa. Amal, Hammoudi and Youssef are young and ambitious, the face of modern Syria. But when civil war tears through their homeland, they are left with a horrifying choice: risk death by staying in the country they love, or flee in search of a new life elsewhere?
The book gives an emphatic insight on how these people experience the war in Syria and how it eventually motivates them all to seek refuge in another country, although leaving behind your home, your family, your career, your country isn't quite as easy as some people like to make it seem.
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I would recommend an Australian book I’m studying at school which is absolutely amazing. ‘Foreign Soils’ by Maxine Beneba Clarke is great!
The Secret Sky: A Novel of Forbidden Love in Afghanistan by Atia Abawi. A couple from two different ethnic groups flees the threat of honor killings from religious extremists, as well as the abuse from their own families.
clap when you land/ elizaberh acevedo
i am not your perfect mexican daughter
land of unknown anericans cristin henriquez
Great book suggestions everyone!! Thanks for adding more.
A graphic novel "Vanni:a family's struggle through Sri Lankan Conflicts" by Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock.
Hi! I'm reading about slavery, featuring brave women finding a way out of the churning waters of possession. As a blogger, I love reading and writing reviews. Check out my website:https://theeditorial15.wixsite.com/my...Here are my recommendations:
Incidents in the life of a slave girl
The narrative of Sojourner Truth
Around the Fire: A Celebration of African Family, Women’s Strength and Our Stories
Hi Everyone, Luck Follows the Brave is about surviving the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 90’s and starting a new life as a refugee in California. In this book, I discuss my refugee experience, as well as long-term effects PTSD and trauma leaves on survivors, which ultimately led to our family losing an immediate family member to suicide in 2013.
September is Suicide Awareness and Prevention month. With this book, my goal is to raise awareness and remove stigma around topics of mental health and suicide prevention. Suicide has been on the rise in United States in recent years, and has become one of the leading causes of death among young adults. Unfortunately, there is very little discussion about this subject for reasons that mental health and death by suicide is still a taboo topic. Being able to have an open and honest discussion about mental health, without prejudice or judgement, would help those who are suffering feel safer in reaching out for help.
Treating mental health conditions with the same urgency as any other life-threatening health condition is of vital importance, yet very limited resources and support are available to patients and their families. My book attempts to call out and break down those barriers, so that meaningful changes can be effected in United States and around the world when it comes to mental health.
My Best Regards,
Aida
Aida Šibić
Luck Follows the Brave: From Refugee Camps, Abuse, and Suicide Loss to Living the Dream
I am a through and through a fan of Nadia Murad and have been actively working towards raising voices against the brutality carried on the Yazidi population. I was spellbound by the struggle that she put and ultimately poured her heart out in her book "The last girl". That book changed me from my core, I have never felt this humbled and overwhelmed ever.
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Books mentioned in this topic
What Is the What (other topics)Do They Hear You When You Cry (other topics)
Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking (other topics)
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story (other topics)
The Refugees (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Dave Eggers (other topics)Ingrid Rojas Contreras (other topics)
Aida Šibić (other topics)
Do They Hear You When You Cry
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
The Refugees
Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking
Sea Prayer
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