After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America (2020) has been chosen as the 2022 summer reading book by the General Education Committee. According to the New York Times, the book "offers a crash course in how shifts in public attitudes and, in turn, United States policy have helped and hindered people desperate to escape the poverty or violence in their homelands."
Students will be encouraged to read After the Last Borderin in preparation for the fall semester 2022. Jessica Goudeau is the author of After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and a Christopher Award. It was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice book,World Magazine’s “Understanding the World” Book of the Year, a Library Journal “Best Social Science Book of the Year” and one of Chicago Public Library’s “Best Books of 2020”.
See also: Jessica Goudeau's website; Jessica Goudeau on Twitter, Instragram, and Facebook
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