{"product_id":"home-now-how-6000-refugees-transformed-an-american-town-9781541767911","title":"Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town","description":"\u003cb\u003eA moving chronicle of who belongs in America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike so many American factory towns, Lewiston, Maine, thrived until its mill jobs disappeared and the young began leaving. But then the story unexpectedly veered: over the course of fifteen years, the city became home to thousands of African immigrants and, along the way, turned into one of the most Muslim towns in the US. Now about 6,000 of Lewiston's 36,000 inhabitants are refugees and asylum seekers, many of them Somali. Cynthia Anderson tells the story of this fractious yet resilient city near where she grew up, offering the unfolding drama of a community's reinvention--and humanizing some of the defining political issues in America today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Lewiston, progress is real but precarious. Anderson takes the reader deep into the lives of both immigrants and lifelong Mainers: a single Muslim mom, an anti-Islamist activist, a Congolese asylum seeker, a Somali community leader. Their lives unfold in these pages as anti-immigrant sentiment rises across the US and national realities collide with those in Lewiston. \u003ci\u003eHome Now\u003c\/i\u003e gives a poignant account of America's evolving relationship with religion and race, and makes a sensitive yet powerful case for embracing change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCynthia Anderson \u003c\/b\u003egrew up in western Maine. Her collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eRiver Talk\u003c\/i\u003e, was a \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e' Best Books of 2014 and received the 2014 New England Book Festival award for Short Stories. Other work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eChristian Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonitor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRedbook\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. Anderson lives with her family in Maine and Massachusetts. She teaches writing at Boston University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726631080210,"sku":"9781541767911","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_97b82475-d2dd-4dbc-b280-04194a5ef19c.jpg?v=1734877429","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/home-now-how-6000-refugees-transformed-an-american-town-9781541767911","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}