Bibliograph

Home now, how 6000 refugees transformed an American town, Cynthia Anderson

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Home now, how 6000 refugees transformed an American town, Cynthia Anderson

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Home now

Oclc number

1088544254

Responsibility statement

Cynthia Anderson

Sub title

how 6000 refugees transformed an American town

Summary

"Over the past 15 years, the town of Lewiston, Maine-once a booming mill town that had fallen on harder times-- has improbably become one of the most Islamic towns in America. Some 6000 Somali immigrants have settled there, drastically changing the makeup of a town of 36,000 people in total. Lewiston now has the third highest per capita Muslim population of any U.S. city Cynthia Anderson tells the story of this fractious yet resilient town and how it is thriving in a new era. With empathy and honesty, she delivers a dramatic portrait of a community grappling with change, while humanizing one of the most defining political issues in America today. Her reporting takes the reader deep into the lives of both immigrants and lifelong Mainers to tell the story of America's relationship to Islam, and deliver an honest refutation of the idea that we'd be better off without change"--, Provided by publisher

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