Tag: refugee

My Father’s Paradise By Ariel Sabar

My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made […]

Slow Noodles By Chantha Nguon

Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes  A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot’s genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother’s kitchen. […]