Home Now by Cynthia Anderson
Over the past 15 years, the town of Lewiston, Maine-once a booming mill town that had fallen on harder times - has improbably become one of the most Islamic towns in America. Some 6000 Somali immigrants have settled there, drastically changing the makeup of a town of 36,000 people in total. Lewiston now has the third highest per capita Muslim population of any U.S. cityCynthia Anderson tells the story of this fractious yet resilient town and how it is thriving in a new era. With empathy and honesty, she delivers a dramatic portrait of a community grappling with change, while humanising one of the most defining political issues in America today. Her reporting takes the reader deep into the lives of both immigrants and lifelong Mainers to tell the story of America's relationship to Islam, and deliver an honest refutation of the idea that we'd be better off without change.Read more
Cynthia Anderson's features and essays have appeared in Boston Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, msnbc.com, The Miami Herald, usatoday.com, Huffington Post, Redbook, Salon and many others. Anderson's short story collection River Talk was a Kirkus Best Books of 2014 and won the New England Book Festival Award for Short Stories and the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Short Stories. She is a sixth-generation Mainer who grew up 40 miles upriver from Lewiston. She is currently a lecturer at Boston University's College of Communication.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781541767911 |
| ISBN 10 | 1541767918 |
| Title | Home Now |
| Author | Cynthia Anderson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Year published | 2019-11-28 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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