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Author Hartman, Susan, 1952- author.

Title City of refugees : the story of three newcomers who breathed life into a dying American town / Susan Hartman.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [2022]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2207274~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  362.839814 HAR    STAFF PICKS
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Description x, 249 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Desire -- Fire -- The fight -- Truce -- The green onion -- Vows -- The gift -- The cake boss -- In bloom -- The wedding -- With strangers -- Shadow -- In Bosnia -- The strike force -- Graduation -- Confessions of a teacher -- Ismar's dream -- The ban -- The drone -- August -- Coming home -- The new apartment -- Lofts -- Mersiha leaps -- Bomb threat -- The Rutger restaurant -- Nineteen -- Designing a house -- The crossing -- Deployed -- The key -- Who will help you? -- They don't talk about it -- On the brink -- Solo -- Ramadan, 2019 -- The mayor's sweep -- Sadia's list -- The visit -- Renovating -- The baby shower -- Their generation -- Six months -- His text -- On the run -- On wings -- The opening -- Karma -- Epilogue. We rallied.
Summary "City of Refugees is the story of three newcomers-a rebellious Somali Bantu girl; a Bosnian woman, who runs a home bakery; and an Iraqi interpreter, haunted by war-as they adapt to an old manufacturing city"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.
Subject Women refugees -- United States -- Biography.
Women refugees -- New York (State) -- Utica -- Social conditions.
Utica (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Utica (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
ISBN 9780807024676 (hardcover)
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