{"product_id":"the-waiting-place-when-home-is-lost-and-a-new-one-not-yet-found-9781536213621","title":"The Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unflinching look at ten young lives suspended outside of time--and bravely proceeding anyway--inside the Katsikas refugee camp in Greece.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvery war, famine, and flood spits out survivors.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cites an unprecedented 79.5 million forcibly displaced people on the planet today. In 2018, Dina Nayeri--a former refugee herself and the daughter of a refugee--invited documentary photographer Anna Bosch Miralpeix to accompany her to Katsikas, a refugee camp outside Ioannina, Greece, to record the hopes and struggles of ten young Farsi-speaking refugees from Iran and Afghanistan. \"I wanted to play with them, to enter their imagined worlds, to see the landscape inside their minds,\" she says. Ranging in age from five to seventeen, the children live in partitioned shipping-crate homes crowded on a field below a mountain. Battling a dreary monster that wants to rob them of their purpose, dignity, and identity, each survives in his or her own special way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Waiting Place \u003c\/i\u003eis an unflinching look at ten young lives suspended outside of time--and bravely proceeding anyway. Each lyrical passage leads the reader from one story to the next, revealing the dreams, ambitions, and personalities of each displaced child. The stories are punctuated by intimate photographs, followed by the author's reflections on life in a refugee camp. Locking the global refugee crisis sharply in focus, \u003ci\u003eThe Waiting Place\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent call to change what we teach young people about the nature of home and safety.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDina Nayeri\u003c\/b\u003e is a former refugee and the author of the adult title \u003ci\u003eThe Ungrateful Refugee\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Prize and the Kirkus Prize. Her work has been published in more than twenty countries and in \u003ci\u003eThe O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications. Of her work with Anna Bosch Miralpeix for \u003ci\u003eThe Waiting Place\u003c\/i\u003e, she says, \"Each morning we set off, me with my notebook, she with her camera and tripod, to see these brave little people fighting back against the waiting place--the monster that wants to get inside you, to change you.\" Dina Nayeri lives in Paris. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Bosch Miralpeix\u003c\/b\u003e is a documentary photographer whose projects include the award-winning \u003ci\u003eBubble Beirut\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia, she is also a teacher and visual project developer. Anna Bosch Miralpeix lives in Barcelona.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Candlewick Press (MA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645712011538,"sku":"9781536213621","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2573224a-fa2b-42dd-9f34-73fafc04c814.jpg?v=1733160356","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-waiting-place-when-home-is-lost-and-a-new-one-not-yet-found-9781536213621","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}