Mediterranean Wall

Three women leave their homelands, each fleeing a different mix of armed conflict, hunger, destitution and a warming climate that has made survival harder. Their path leads them toward Europe and the hope of a more decent life. The novel traces their journeys and the friendship that grows between them as they face the hardships of the road.

The climax of their story is a crossing of the Mediterranean aboard a crowded, falling-apart fishing boat. The events are drawn from real happenings off the Italian coast in the summer of 2014, and the book is written as a sweeping, panoramic account of displacement.