A Long Walk to Water
Two eleven-year-olds in southern Sudan, twenty-three years apart: a Dinka boy fleeing war and a Nuer girl walking hours for water, until their stories meet at…
2,217-word summary · 10 min read
Tag: refugees
6 books with this tag.
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
Hyeonseo Lee crossed the frozen Yalu River at seventeen, spent years hidden in China, escaped to South Korea, and later returned to rescue her family.
2,404-word summary · 11 min read
A Long Petal of the Sea
A pregnant widow and her brother-in-law marry for passage on a ship of Spanish exiles bound for Chile, then spend decades building and losing homes together.
2,016-word summary · 9 min read
Exit West
Two lovers flee civil war through magic doors, traveling from an unnamed city to Greece, London, and California as love shifts.
2,704-word summary · 12 min read
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
A beekeeper guides his blind wife from Aleppo through camps toward Britain.
1,992-word summary · 9 min read
Salt to the Sea
Four refugee teens cross frozen Prussia toward a doomed ship that history barely remembers.
2,094-word summary · 9 min read