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Author McCormick, Ty, author.

Title Beyond the sand and sea : one family's quest for a country to call home / Ty McCormick.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.
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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.8709 MCCORMICK    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  332.8709 MCC    Missing
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 HUSSEIN, ASA    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B HUSSEIN, A.    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B HUSSEIN ASAD M    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 277 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction -- Origins. Desert Macondo ; A sister's love ; The torture chamber ; Tahrib ; Striking out ; Help from afar -- Journeys. In the footsteps of Al-Shabab ; Beacon of hope ; Culture shock ; Miracle -- Reflections. America at last ; Princeton ; Goobe ; A sense of belonging.
Summary "From Ty McCormick, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, an epic and timeless story of a family in search of safety, security, and a place to call home. When Asad Hussein was growing up in the world's largest refugee camp, nearly every aspect of life revolved around getting to America-a distant land where anything was possible. Thousands of displaced families like his were whisked away to the United States in the mid-2000s, leaving the dusty encampment in northeastern Kenya for new lives in suburban America. When Asad was nine, his older sister Maryan was resettled in Arizona, but Asad, his parents, and his other siblings were left behind. In the years they waited to join her, Asad found refuge in dog-eared novels donated by American charities, many of them written by immigrants who had come to the United States from poor and war-torn countries. Maryan nourished his dreams of someday writing such novels, but it would be another fourteen years before he set foot in America. The story of Asad and his family's escape from Dadaab refugee camp is one of perseverance in the face of overwhelming adversity. It is also a story of happenstance, of long odds and impossibly good luck, and of uncommon generosity. In a world where too many young men are forced to make dangerous sea crossings in search of work, are recruited into extremist groups, and die at the hands of brutal security forces, Asad not only made it to the United States to join Maryan, but won a scholarship to study literature at Princeton-the first person born in Dadaab ever admitted to the prestigious university. Beyond the Sand and Sea is an extraordinary and inspiring book for anyone searching for pinpricks of light in the darkness. Meticulously reported over three years, it reveals the strength of a family of Somali refugees who never lost faith in America-and exposes the broken refugee resettlement system that kept that family trapped for more than two decades and has turned millions into permanent exiles"-- Provided by publisher.
When Asad Hussein was growing up in the world's largest refugee camp, nearly every aspect of life revolved around getting to America. When Asad was nine, his older sister Maryan was resettled in Arizona, but Asad, his parents, and his other siblings were left behind. In the years they waited to join her, Asad found refuge in dog-eared novels donated by American charities, many of them written by immigrants who had come to the United States from poor and war-torn countries. It would be another fourteen years before he set foot in America. McCormick tells of Asad's family, and their escape from Dadaab refugee camp is one of perseverance in the face of overwhelming adversity. -- adapted from jacket
Subject Hussein, Asad, 1995-
Dadaab Refugee Camp.
Refugees -- Somalia -- Biography.
Refugees -- Kenya -- Biography.
Refugees -- United States -- Biography.
Somalis -- Kenya -- Biography.
Somalis -- United States -- Biography.
Refugee camps -- Kenya.
Somali-Ethiopian Conflict, 1979-
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Dadaab Refugee Camp. (OCoLC)fst01973966
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00908700
Refugee camps. (OCoLC)fst01092775
Refugees. (OCoLC)fst01092797
Somalis. (OCoLC)fst01125730
Kenya. (OCoLC)fst01208718
Somalia. (OCoLC)fst01205351
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Somali-Ethiopian Conflict (1979-) (OCoLC)fst01125727
Chronological Term Since 1979
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
ISBN 9781250240606 (hardcover)
1250240603 (hardcover)
9781250240613 (ebook)
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