Description: A Palestinian boy experiences the brutal repression of Syria's civil uprising, leaves family and home for a safer country, and eventually arrives in Finland, a society incomprehensibly different from everything familiar to him. Tragically, trauma has affected him in ways that make adjustment to a safe environment extremely challenging.
Brief description: John B. Simon is the author of To Become Somebody: Growing up against the Grain of Society, Kone's Prince, and Strangers in a Stranger Land: How One Country's Jews Fought an Unwinnable War alongside Nazi Troops... and Survived.