A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging Audiobook

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• A remarkable, unnerving, and cautionary portrait of a global immigration crisis.

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred)

• In this brilliant, timely meditation, Markham explores how the stories we tell about borders and who belongs can harden our hearts or help to open them. The threads she follows weave a tapestry as moving as it is illuminating.

  — Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark and A Field Guide to Getting Lost

• This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we’ve been told—and told ourselves—in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we’ve come to understand as order.

  — Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams

• A masterpiece of narrative journalism. A Map of Future Ruins is a story of two crises: the current refugee crisis affecting the Greek islands and the long-overlooked identity crisis within White America, whose preoccupation with ‘Western culture’ as an origin myth she traces both expansively and intimately.

  — Aminatta Forna, author of Happiness and The Memory of Love

• Pushes beyond the news to interrogate the collective myths we tell ourselves about community, belonging, and the lives of immigrants.

  — Jonathan Blitzer, author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

• Luminous and expansive ... Markham shows us what we most urgently need to see.

  — Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree and The Man Who Could Move Clouds

• Meticulous and exuberant, this is a journalist’s wayfinding journey to map a truthful account of the current refugee crisis.

  — Thi Bui, author of The Best We Could Do

• A masterful, multilayered story by a writer with a sharp, questioning mind and a big heart.

  — Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight and King Leopold’s Ghost