Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos
Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos
Heighton, Steven
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Condition: New, UPC: 9781771963763, Publication Date: Sun, November 1, 2020, Type: Paperback ,
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FINALIST FOR THE 2020 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION - A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book - A CBC Best Nonfiction Book of 2020 - A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book for 2020

"Combining his poetic sensibilities and storytelling skills with a documentarian's eye, [Heighton] has created a wrenching narrative."--2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury

In the fall of 2015, Steven Heighton made an overnight decision to travel to the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and enlist as a volunteer. He arrived on the isle of Lesvos with a duffel bag and a dubious grasp of Greek, his mother's native tongue, and worked on the landing beaches and in OXY---a jerrybuilt, ad hoc transit camp providing simple meals, dry clothes, and a brief rest to refugees after their crossing from Turkey. In a town deserted by the tourists that had been its lifeblood, Heighton---alongside the exhausted locals and under-equipped international aid workers---found himself thrown into emergency roles for which he was woefully unqualified.

From the brief reprieves of volunteer-refugee soccer matches to the riots of Camp Moria, Reaching Mithymna is a firsthand account of the crisis and an engaged exploration of the borders that divide us and the ties that bind.

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