A gripping combination of current events journalism, a history of human migration, a memoir, a travel journal, and so much more. I listened to the audiobook and I’d love to get my hands on a physical copy in the future to further absorb each story. The way Markham laid the completely man-made tragedy and unjust abuse refugees traversing the Mediterranean bare and was able to so clearly parallel the systems the USA has put in place to abuse and disrupt refugees at the USA-Mexico border was infuriating and validating. So often, refugee “crises” are pitted against each other, one “Western” country touts how accepting they are of new arrivals to out-shine the rest while they all collaborate in destabilizing asylum seeker homelands and violate international and local laws to keep other people from finding a safe place. Focusing on a few individual stories really brought each point to heart.