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I‘m so glad I finally read this book after letting it languish on my shelf. As the daughter of immigrants, the raw and profound thoughts of the fictional immigrants in this book moved me to tears. The gravity of abandoning homeland for hope is so unfathomable. I enjoyed the prose, the narrator, and the calm way the book unfolds. Caution: The one part that struck me as odd was a bizarrely nonchalant sexual assault that passes by without commentary.

Only 96 pages, but so powerful!
This book makes me want to return to Ellis Island and see it this time through the eyes of John Miller. I think the author stated it beautifully in saying the Museum of Immigration now “guards the memory of all those exiles”.