2020年8月4日 · Mu Naw, a Christian from Myanmar struggling to put down roots with her family, was accepted after decades in a refugee camp at a time when America was at its most open to displaced families; and Hasna, a Muslim from Syria, agrees to relocate as a last resort for the safety of her family--only to be cruelly separated from her children by a ...

2020年8月4日 · There is the story of Mu Naw, a refugee from Myanmar who comes with her family to Austin, Texas, in 2007 after spending most of her life in a Thai camp, and that of Hasna al-Salam, who arrives...

2020年7月7日 · Narrator: Mu Naw. Date: 07/07/2020. Location: Clarkston, Georgia. Summary: Born in a refugee camp in Thailand to Burmese parents, Mu moved to the United States at the age of sixteen with her nuclear family. She describes her experience in the camp, receiving an education, and the evolution of her Christian faith in the process of immigrating to ...

2001年9月11日 · As a five-year-old child, Mu Naw fled Myanmar, crossing the border into Thailand and living in a small refugee camp only to be later chased out of there by soldiers. Returning to Myanmar, she lived with a cruel cousin for three years and then returned to a larger camp in Thailand where her mother was living.

2020年8月4日 · Readers are with Mu Naw as she goes to English class, finds out she’s unexpectedly pregnant, is betrayed by sponsors who are supposed to protect her, forms close ties with other refugees and becomes a resilient leader.

2020年8月10日 · In this book we take a journey into American culture through the eyes of Mu Naw from Myanmar, and Hasna from Syria. Mu Naw arrived in 2007; Hasna in 2016, both as refugees and both unwittingly arriving as America is arguing the depth and breadth of immigration.

2021年8月3日 · Mu Naw, a Christian from Myanmar struggling to put down roots with her family, was accepted after decades in a refugee camp at a time when America was at its most open to displaced families; and Hasna, a Muslim from Syria, agrees to relocate as a last resort for the safety of her family—only to be cruelly separated from her children by a ...

In the closet, Mu Naw recalled her mother in an entirely new light. Her father had told the story of how he married her. His friends grabbed her and brought her to him, where he raped her, ruined her reputation, and denied her the man whom she loved. Mu Naw’s rage at …

Alternating the stories of two refugees, Mu Naw and Hasna, she describes in detail the trauma they endured in their countries of origin and in flight from those countries. Goudeau, who knew and befriended Mu Naw in Austin, interviewed both her friend and Hasna on multiple occasions.

2020年8月10日 · In After the Last Border (Viking 2020), Jessica Goudeau interweaves the stories of two refugee women — one from Myanmar and one from Syria — with a meticulously researched history of the refugee resettlement movement in the United States.