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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bala, Sharon, author.     Subjects     Refugees -- Canada -- Fiction.     Fathers and sons -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bala, Sharon, author.       by title:      The boat people / Sh...         MARC Display

The boat people / Sharon Bala. by Bala, Sharon, author. New York : Doubleday, [2018] Subjects Refugees -- Canada -- Fiction.   Fathers and sons -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780385542296 (hardcover) : 0385542291 (hardcover) Description:  338 pages ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "For readers of Khaled Hosseini and Chris Cleave, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among the "boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these terrorists now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees become subject to heavy interrogation, Mahindan begins to fear that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum. Told through the alternating perspectives of Mahindan; his lawyer, Priya, a second-generation Sri Lankan Canadian who reluctantly represents the refugees; and Grace, a third-generation Japanese Canadian adjudicator who must decide Mahindan's fate as evidence mounts against him, The Boat People is a spellbinding and timely novel that provokes a deeply compassionate lens through which to view the current refugee crisis"-- "A debut novel about a thirty-five-year-old Sri Lankan refugee who has survived the harrowing experiences of civil war, a prison camp, and a perilous ocean voyage to Canada -- but his journey has only begun, as he and his young son navigate the morass of the refugee system"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Fiction Bala Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Fiction Bala Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Fiction Bala Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mountain View P/S Library Adult Fiction Bala Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Fiction Bala Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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