{"product_id":"home-now-cynthia-anderson-9781541767911","title":"Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town","description":"\u003cb\u003eA moving chronicle of who belongs in America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike so many American factory towns, Lewiston, Maine, thrived until its mill jobs disappeared and the young began leaving. But then the story unexpectedly veered: over the course of fifteen years, the city became home to thousands of African immigrants and, along the way, turned into one of the most Muslim towns in the US. Now about 6,000 of Lewiston's 36,000 inhabitants are refugees and asylum seekers, many of them Somali. Cynthia Anderson tells the story of this fractious yet resilient city near where she grew up, offering the unfolding drama of a community's reinvention--and humanizing some of the defining political issues in America today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Lewiston, progress is real but precarious. Anderson takes the reader deep into the lives of both immigrants and lifelong Mainers: a single Muslim mom, an anti-Islamist activist, a Congolese asylum seeker, a Somali community leader. Their lives unfold in these pages as anti-immigrant sentiment rises across the US and national realities collide with those in Lewiston. \u003ci\u003eHome Now\u003c\/i\u003e gives a poignant account of America's evolving relationship with religion and race, and makes a sensitive yet powerful case for embracing change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1541767918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541767911\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2019 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/28\/2019","brand":"Cynthia Anderson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44047506669823,"sku":"9781541767911","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1cfba008-d8d8-4fe1-ac2c-51afc8e9bd97.jpg?v=1684990605","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/home-now-cynthia-anderson-9781541767911","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}