Laura McVeighs schrijven is gevormd door haar uitgebreide ervaring bij PEN International en haar wereldwijde pleidooi voor vrijheid van meningsuiting. Haar werk duikt in complexe thema's van mondiale politiek en mensenrechten, waarbij ze stem geeft aan vaak gemarginaliseerde perspectieven. Ze onderzoekt meesterlijk de interactie tussen individuele levens en bredere sociopolitieke krachten. Haar romans bieden diepgaande inzichten in menselijke veerkracht en de zoektocht naar begrip in een onderling verbonden wereld.
Fifteen year old Samar, the middle child, shares the story of her incredible journey on the Trans-Siberian Express - with the help of Napoleon, the Ticket Collector, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and her parents and siblings. Forced to flee Kabul as the Russians, then the Taliban, turn their lives inside out, the children and their parents face the loss of their world and their place in it.
"Ten-year old Lenny wants to save his home, Roseville, Louisiana, from the sinkhole that threatens to destroy it. His mother, Mari-Rose, unable to cope and dreaming of a better life, has abandoned him. His father, Jim, has returned from war suffering from PTSD. Lenny is homeless, sleeping rough in the bayou swampland, and his only true friends in the world are young Lucy Albert, the lonely town librarian, and long-retired schoolteacher Miss Julie Betterdine Valéry - who is still waiting on the return of her husband, Stanley, sent to war in Korea in 1952. Travelling between two storylines - the first taking place in 2011 in the Ubari Sand Sea in Libya, the second along the banks of False River, Louisiana, when the ripple effects of the Great Recession, pollution, environmental destruction and the rapidly rising waters are causing whole towns to empty out all along the Bayou, LENNY is a story about how we treat our planet and each other. It examines the nature of time and reality, conflict, family and love, and explores how hope and imagination can save us."--
Eigene Wege gehen und Einzigartiges erleben.