Reaching Mithymna av Steven Heighton

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<p><strong>FINALIST FOR THE 2020 HILARY WESTON WRITERS¿ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION ¿ A <em>New York Times</em> New & Noteworthy Book ¿ A CBC Best Nonfiction Book of 2020 ¿ A <em>Globe and Mail</em> Top 100 Book for 2020</strong></p><p><strong>¿Combining his poetic sensibilities and storytelling skills with a documentarian¿s eye, [Heighton] has created a wrenching narrative.¿¿2020 Hilary Weston Writers¿ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury </strong></p><p>In the fall of 2015, Steven Heighton made an overnight decision to travel to the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and enlist as a volunteer. He arrived on the isle of Lesvos with a duffel bag and a dubious grasp of Greek, his mother''s native tongue, and worked on the landing beaches and in OXY-¿a jerrybuilt, ad hoc transit camp providing simple meals, dry clothes, and a brief rest to refugees after their crossing from Turkey. In a town deserted by the tourists that had been its lifeblood, Heighton-¿alongside the exhaus