{"product_id":"displaced-lives-frank-stewart-9780824886417","title":"Displaced Lives: Fiction, Poetry, Memoirs, and Plays from Four Continents","description":"\u003cp\u003eHuman displacement is an old phenomenon; however, the dislocation of people in the twenty-first century has been unprecedented. At the end of 2019, over 260 million people were living outside their countries of birth. Some are forced to relocate--by violence, wars, hunger, persecution, and other causes--and some are voluntary migrants. A single term cannot define who they are or why they are on the move. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor those uprooted by force, the psychological and spiritual loss of homeland can be devastating. The millions who are mentally uprooted--because of war-induced PTSD, addiction, and aging--can suffer similar displacement and trauma. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough outstanding fiction, poetry, memoir, and drama, the authors in Displaced Lives vividly depict the responses and emotions of ordinary people to displacement, a devastating and widespread crisis of our time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAuthors are from Bangladesh, Canada, Cuba, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Iran, Israel, Macedonia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, and the U.S. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeatured is a portfolio of photographs by Serena Chopra, taken in the Tibetan refugee colony of Majnu Ka Tilla, Delhi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Stewart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0824886410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780824886417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Hawaii Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Frank Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453415371007,"sku":"9780824886417","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e7f268d8-1e93-48bd-95fe-b326195762b4.jpg?v=1777300098","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/displaced-lives-frank-stewart-9780824886417","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}