{"product_id":"boat-people-book-sharon-bala-9780385542296","title":"The Boat People","description":"When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among the \"boat people\" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks-and that these terrorists now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees become subject to heavy interrogation, Mahindan begins to fear that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum.\u003cbr\u003e Told through the alternating perspectives of Mahindan; his lawyer, Priya, a second-generation Sri Lankan Canadian who reluctantly represents the refugees; and Grace, a third-generation Japanese Canadian adjudicator who must decide Mahindan's fate as evidence mounts against him, \u003ci\u003eThe Boat People\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding and timely novel that provokes a deeply compassionate lens through which to view the current refugee crisis.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49573827445009,"sku":"GOR008869107","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49803387044113,"sku":"CIN0385542291G","price":3.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50244300013841,"sku":"CIN0385542291VG","price":4.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50981427708177,"sku":"CIN0385542291A","price":6.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51132314059025,"sku":"GOR014182247","price":12.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0385542291.jpg?v=1751072452","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/boat-people-book-sharon-bala-9780385542296","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}