A moving story. Real and current. Very relatable regardless of your own state or citizenship.

Written by a lawyer who is immersed every day in ‘cases’ of this nature, the story draws you into the plight of stateless humans in our midst. In sad reality, the voices that speak out for them are so muffled amid the clatter of the world’s issues. This novel gives a stage to the people and cases of the numerous ‘lawyer-speak’ academic works the author has already published. In this, she personalises the technical jargon, brings to life the people caught in difficult to understand legal loopholes and shoved indignantly in the world’s crevices, the people stuck between greedy nations vying for power and autonomy, cultural preservation, or world dominance. But the people in the middle are the ones hurt and forgotten. This book is a reminder, a real voice among fiction that speaks up for the side of social injustice that country borders and nationalities create.

Put it on the Canadian curriculum for social studies and English literature please—it will stir positive discussion and provoke action among a generation of young Canadians whose parents and grandparents have come to this wonderful land from places that move our hearts, places of war and political turmoil, places of disaster—the sacred, horrific places in which we can no longer live, but never want to forget.