{"id":9455,"date":"2021-06-30T15:27:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T21:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greencardvoices.org\/events\/hardcover-book-launch-our-stories-carried-us-here\/"},"modified":"2021-09-09T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:38:21","slug":"hardcover-book-launch-our-stories-carried-us-here","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.greencardvoices.org\/events\/hardcover-book-launch-our-stories-carried-us-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch of “Our Stories Carried Us Here”"},"content":{"rendered":"
We are so pleased to announce a FREE, LIVE, IN-PERSON hardcover Book Launch for Our Stories Carried Us Here<\/em>. Save September 15, 2021 for a memorable, fun-filled evening at the Landmark Center. All are Welcome! Reserve your spot today!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meet the storytellers, illustrators, and co-editors who’ll be joining us in-person coming from Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, Fargo, North Dakota, and Northern and Central Minnesota: Zurya Anjum, Amara Solomon Kamara, Mary Anne Quiroz, Aziz Kamal, Benie (Ruth) Mekolum, Vy Loung, sushine gao, Tom Kaczynski, Toufic El Rassi, and Veronica Quillien (Sandjock Likin\u00e8).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our Stories Carried Us Here: A Graphic Novel Anthology<\/em> documents and amplifies the first person stories of 10 immigrants and refugees. These individuals live across the United States, in cities including Fargo, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Milwaukee, and are students, doctors, engineers, and artists. This project details their lives in their home countries and their reasons for leaving, document their journey to the US, and highlight their goals for the future.<\/p>\n “One feels the motif of the American Dream throughout this book, not as the universal truth it is usually painted as, but as a trope that some of the authors would very much like to undo to get at a more personal truth closer to their own experience.”<\/strong> \u2014Thi Bui, Author of The Best We Could<\/em><\/p>\nBOOK LAUNCH PANELISTS<\/h4>\n
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