Voice of Witness’s fourth book, Out of Exile: The Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan has been completed, and will be available at the end of the summer. Thanks and congratulations to editor Craig Walzer and everyone who contributed to this project.
Miami Sun Post review of Underground America
Posted on July 2, 2008 | link
John Hood of the Miami Sun Post reviewed Underground America, calling it a “brave and beautiful book.” Read on below.
You Do Have to Live Like a Refugee
… if you’re one of the undocumenteds in Peter Orner’s Underground America
By John Hood
Everybody’s got a story — you, me, everybody. But nobody’s story’s more tragic than that of those who’ve been forced to leave their homes, their lands and their families. I mean, of course, the refugee.
Hearing these stories is another thing entirely, which is why we should be thankful for a storyteller named Peter Orner, whose shorts have been featured everywhere from The Atlantic Monthly andThe Paris Review, to New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond and The Pushcart Prize Anthology.
In other words, Orner knows his tales, and in his edit of Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (McSweeney’s, $24) he lets them tell
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Salon.com interview with Peter Orner
Posted on July 2, 2008 | link
Whitney Joiner of Salon.com recently interviewed Peter Orner about the treatment of immigrants in the U.S. The two crossed over the U.S.-Mexico border together while discussing the narratives in Underground America. To read the interview, click here.
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