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To talk about the migrant experience is really to examine what it means to be human, which is exactly what the Bogotá Writers have done in this collection. Their work here reminds us that each person takes a singular journey in life.
There is the mother on an English train who smiles outwardly for her child as memories of a civil war on an island in the Indian Ocean well up within. There is the expat hugging a rescue dog in the back of a taxi, making a promise to do better this time. There is the woman who suffered a brutal attack at the hands of her so-called lover, who has risen to live a good life in a suburb many miles from where she started. There is the father arguing with his daughter over a kidsu2019 storybook that means much more than the words it contains.
The characters in this book wield guns and cricket bats; they strike out for new shores and face difficult returns; they dream of the future and ruminate on the past. These stories show us how individual each migrant experience is, and, in that respect, how universal. By the end, we realise that the migrants in the book are both Them and Us, all at once.u201drn(Caroline Doherty de Novoa)
rnShort stories by:rnÁngela Álvarez Vélez, Peter Dale, Victoria Kellaway, Tony Cleaver, Ana Carolina Pereira, Delaney Turner, Juan Manuel Rodríguez Bocanegra, Daniela Restrepo Ortiz, Vicent Pollard, Clara Irene Reyes.
