“The Far Away Brothers” is impeccably timed, intimately reported and beautifully expressed. And on getting a signature from their parents, when the cruelty of their parents was the “official” reason they fled? By 2013, one-third of its population resided in the United States. But from an immigrant’s perspective, the United States can be a land of mixed promise, flowing honey and curdled milk. “To be so very lucky and so terribly unlucky could disorient a person,” Markham writes.

Source: New York Times September 20, 2017 18:11 UTC