“Nothing is intolerable until an alternative exists, if only as a dream. When Maryam, pregnant with Omar, had fled the Soviets, the limits of her horizon were Pakistan and Iran. Now her children were linked to a diaspora that stretched from Long Island to Melbourne, and the screens in their pockets brought them images of how life could be elsewhere.”
The Naked Don’t Fear The Water by Matthieu Aikins
Super intense and eye-opening book. Read it, and acquire perspective.
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