Book jacket image for A Map of Future Ruins by Lauren Markham

Riverhead

9780593545577

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A Map of Future Ruins

Lauren Markham deftly braids reporting on the refugee crisis in Greece with historical research and memoir in A Map of Future Ruins.

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Review of ‘A Map of Future Ruins’

The popular conception of America’s origins as a nation forged by hardworking immigrants contrasts sharply with the indifferent and sometimes cruel policies that hinder many migrants and refugees today. In A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging, author and journalist Lauren Markham explores this chasm in the American consciousness, asking why some migrants…

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