In Search of Safety, Susan Kuklin
In Search of Safety, Susan Kuklin
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In Search of Safety
Voices of Refugees

Author: Susan Kuklin

Narrator: Vivienne Leheny, Josh Bloomberg, Deepti Gupta

Unabridged: 5 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/29/2020


Synopsis

Five refugees recount their courageous journeys to America — and the unimaginable struggles that led them to flee their homelands — in a powerful work from the author of Beyond Magenta and We Are Here to Stay.“From 1984, when I was born, until July 16, 2017, when I arrived in the United States, I never lived in a place where there was no war.” — Fraidoon An Iraqi woman who survived capture by ISIS. A Sudanese teen growing up in civil war and famine. An Afghan interpreter for the U.S. Army living under threat of a fatwa. They are among the five refugees who share their stories in award-winning author and photographer Susan Kuklin’s latest masterfully crafted narrative. The five, originally from Afghanistan, Myanmar, South Sudan, Iraq, and Burundi, give gripping first-person testimonies about what it is like to flee war, face violent threats, grow up in a refugee camp, be sold into slavery, and resettle in America. This work is essential reading for understanding the devastating impact of war and persecution — and the power of resilience, optimism, and the will to survive.

About Susan Kuklin

Susan Kuklin is the award-winning author and photographer of more than thirty books for children and young adults that address culture and social issues, including No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row; Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, a Stonewall Honor Book; and We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults. Her photographs have appeared in documentary films and in Time magazine, Newsweek, and the New York Times. Susan Kuklin lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy on May 06, 2020

"It's just a choir," Dieudonne replied to the parents of the youth choir he created. And I was in tears. You see, Dieudonne had spent twelve years of his childhood in a refugee camp. His parents were a mixed marriage of Hutus and Tutsis. When soldiers told his father that he had to kill his wife, the......more

Goodreads review by Corinne on September 29, 2020

Five different individuals. Five countries of origin. Five unique lives and five unique stories that tell of horror unimaginable, of fear and trauma and displacement - but also a kind of tangible hope that truly reflects the astonishing capacity of the human spirit. However they became a refugee - w......more

Goodreads review by Edward on July 15, 2020

In this handsomely designed work of photojournalism, Kulkin presents the stories of five refugees from different parts of the world who recount their experiences of war, abduction into sex slavery, torture, and loss. Painful, raw, sometimes surprisingly humorous, and ultimately hopeful, they make pl......more

Goodreads review by Jade on April 03, 2020

In Search of Safety: Voices of Refugees is a collection of 5 distinct stories of people forced to flee their countries of origin because of death threats, persecution, foreign invasion, and who finally end up calling Nebraska, USA their home. It is the story of immense struggles, heartbreaking sadne......more

Goodreads review by Virginia McGee on May 11, 2020

In Search of Safety: Voices of Refugees by Susan Kuklin tells the stories of five refugees from Afghanistan, Myanmar, South Sudan, Iraq, and Burundi in their own first person testimonies interlaced with occasional explanatory remarks as needed. These refugees wound up in Nebraska with several refere......more