{"product_id":"all-else-failed-the-unlikely-volunteers-at-the-heart-of-the-migrant-aid-crisis-9781954276093","title":"All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAs hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat on the shores of Greece, setting off the greatest human displacement in Europe since WWII. As journalists reported horrific mass drownings, an ill-prepared and seemingly indifferent world looked on. Those who reached Europe needed food, clothing, medicine, and shelter, but the international aid system broke down completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll Else Failed\u003c\/i\u003e is Dana Sachs's compelling eyewitness account of the successes--and failures--of the volunteer relief network that emerged to meet the enormous need. Closely following the odysseys of seven individual men and women, and their families, it tells a story of despair and resilience, revealing the humanity within an immense humanitarian disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana Sachs\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist, novelist, and cofounder of the nonprofit Humanity Now: Direct Refugee Relief, which supports grassroots teams providing aid to displaced people. A former Fulbright Scholar, she is the author of three works of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eThe House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eAll Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the novels \u003ci\u003eIf You Lived Here\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Secret of the Nightingale Palace\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e. Sachs lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bellevue Literary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50452946387218,"sku":"9781954276093","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e03823a4-6b35-4f21-983a-68ad0adc97e3.jpg?v=1729829000","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/all-else-failed-the-unlikely-volunteers-at-the-heart-of-the-migrant-aid-crisis-9781954276093","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}