Global Perspectives Book Club

Description:
Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes. For years, the majority came from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but many more have begun their journey much farther away. Some flee persecution, others crime or hunger. They may have already been deported, but the United States remains their only hope for safety and prosperity. They will take their chances.

As Jonathan Blitzer dramatizes with forensic, unprecedented reporting, this crisis is the result of decades of misguided policy and sweeping corruption. Brilliantly weaving the stories of Central Americans whose lives have been devastated by chronic political conflict and violence with those of American activists, government officials, and the politicians responsible for the country’s tragically tangled immigration policy, Blitzer reveals the full, layered picture of this vast and unremitting conflict.

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here tells the epic story of the people whose lives ebb and flow across the border, delving into the heart of American life itself. This vital and remarkable story has shaped the nation’s turbulent politics and culture in countless ways—and will almost certainly determine its future.

Link to purchase book locally through Good Neighbor Bookstore: https://goodneighborbooks.com/book/9781984880826

Link to RSVP via Microsoft Forms:
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We will be meeting on Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 7pm in the Fenn Library at St. Luke’s Church (in the undercroft, behind the Johnson Stage).

Next meeting: Tuesday, April 21 at 7pm
Book: Questions for Ada by Ijeoma Umebinyuo