Eyewear Publishing People That Don't Exist Are Citizens Of A Made Up Country

Literary Nonfiction. PEOPLE THAT DON'T EXIST ARE CITIZENS OF A MADE UP COUNTRY is an exploration of family emigration in the context of global migration. It seeks to display the increasingly universal reality of displacement as a lived experience. In a sequence of interlinked chapter essays migrant reality is married to one family's history."In this vital new work from Joe Horgan; the Irish emigrant experience is examined against the backdrop of continued global movement of migrants. In these compassionate; multilayered essays; Horgan demolishes stereotypes of 'them' and 'us;' provoking the reader to discover their own empathy in the face of ignorance and fear. This is a book that manages that rare feat of proving both edifying and thoroughly enjoyable."--Jessica Traynor Autorid: Joe Horgan