Alabama and Argentina. Cleveland, Columbus, Cuba, and Czechoslovakia. Guinea, Haiti, and Kent. Mauritania and Mexico. New Jersey, New York, Panama, and Romania. Sierra Leone and South Sudan. Youngstown and Vietnam.
What do these places have in common?
Find out as you read Far From Their Eyes, Ohio Migration Anthology (Volume I). Each story, essay, painting, and poem in this anthology is rooted in at least two worlds—the physical place where its creator lives, today, and the place from which they and their ancestors came.
Far From Their Eyes: Ohio Migration Anthology, Volume I is a collection of essays, short stories, poems, interviews, and artwork from people with connections to Ohio and to migration. Hear from a descendant of African Americans who moved to Cleveland during the Great Migration, a daughter of Holocaust survivors, a future leader of Sierra Leone, and a fifth grader who wrote her grandpa’s life story. Paintings from Cuban-born Eldis Rodriguez-Baez and Bol Aweng of Sudan line the cover and pages. They are stunning.
Proceeds from the book sales will be divided among contributors, with a portion donated to the Ohio Center for Strategic Immigration Litigation & Outreach (OCSILiO) and the Cleveland Association of Black Storytellers (CABS).
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