Mary Pipher: The Middle of Everywhere

The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community by Mary Bray Pipher


My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book is full of heart-breaking and uplifting stories about refugees resettling from their war-torn countries to Lincoln NE, an unlikely location but increasingly "the middle of everywhere". This book as functioned as a touchstone and guide in my own interactions with the refugee population in Fargo. I lifted a phrase to start my own manuscript; refugees, Pipher tells us, move "from fire to fire". Life in America comes with its own tremendous challenges and risks. She also taught me "that giving never makes one poorer;" a aphorism that has proven true to me over and over again. She has taught me, with a little help from John Dau, that "I can do more."


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