The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham

The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham

The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California--fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.

Impeccably timed, intimately reported, and beautifully expressed.--The New York Times

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - WINNER OF THE RIDENHOUR BOOK PRIZE - SILVER WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD

Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores--until, at age seventeen, a deadly threat from the region's brutal gangs forces them to flee the only home they've ever known. In this urgent chronicle of contemporary immigration, journalist Lauren Markham follows the Flores twins as they make their way across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, into the hands of immigration authorities, and from there to their estranged older brother in Oakland, CA. Soon these unaccompanied minors are navigating school in a new language, working to pay down their mounting coyote debt, and facing their day in immigration court, while also encountering the triumphs and pitfalls of teenage life with only each other for support. With intimate access and breathtaking range, Markham offers an unforgettable testament to the migrant experience.

FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE - SHORTLISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE - LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/BOGRAD WELD PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY

This] beautifully written book . . . can be read as a supplement to the current news, a chronicle of the problems that Central Americans are fleeing and the horrors they suffer in flight. But it transcends the crisis. Markham's deep, frank reporting is also useful in thinking ahead to the challenges of assimilation, for the struggling twins and many others like them. . . . Her reporting is intimate and detailed, and her tone is a special pleasure. Trustworthy, calm, decent, it offers refuge from a world consumed by Twitter screeds and cable news demagogues. . . . A generous book for an ungenerous age.--Jason DeParle, The New York Review of Books

You should read The Far Away Brothers. We all should.--NPR

This is the sort of news that is the opposite of fake. . . . Markham is our knowing, compassionate ally, our guide in sorting out, up close, how our new national immigration policy is playing out from a human perspective. . . . An important book.--The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Lauren Markham is a writer residing in Berkeley, California, who writes on youth, migration, the environment, and her native state. Harper's, the New Republic, Orion, the Guardian, the New York Times, and VQR, where she is a contributing editor, have published her writing. Lauren graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts with a Masters in Fiction Writing. She has worked in the sectors of refugee resettlement and immigrant education for over a decade. laurenmarkham.info is on Twitter as @LaurenMarkham_ and on Instagram as @laurenemarkham.

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ISBN 13	9781101906200
ISBN 10	1101906200
Title	The Far Away Brothers
Author	Lauren Markham
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Year published	2018-05-22
Number of pages	320
Prizes	Winner of Northern California Book Reviewers Award (previously BABRA) 2018, Winner of Ridenhour Prizes 2018, Short-listed for L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2017, Short-listed for Lukas Prize Project: J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2018, Long-listed for PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2018
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