2.5 stars.

I’ll admit it upfront: I never really connected with this book. Normally I love reading slice-of-life and (auto)biography/memoir and historical fiction, but I just couldn’t get into this one. The writing style felt awkward to me, the photographs too dark and indistinguishable from each other — though that could just be a failing of the Kindle format — and while I liked hearing about each emigrant’s life story, a lot of the book (mostly the parts about the author’s journeys in their footsteps, but in some places the interviews and journal excerpts too) dragged on interminably.