Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain by Russell Freedman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
While I think this book would make an extremely valuable contribution to a collection of immigration books, it is also very discomfiting. I must admit that I had to skim a lot of it, because it was a bit too painful for me to think about.
From a technical standpoint, this book is less about narrative than it is about presentation. The pictures and the poems tell a lot of the story. History is not my biggest interest and I usually prefer story. This book doesn't have quite as much story as I generally prefer.
I wonder if Australia will, in the future, have an analogous experience with their asylum seekers on Manus Island.
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