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    Review: Migrant voices echo with wit, nostalgia

    by Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times Oct 30, 2019 3 minutes

    "The Penguin Book of Migration Literature," edited by Dohra Ahmad, foreword by Edwidge Danticat; Penguin Classics (320 pages, $17)

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    We are a world of migrants, a planet of comings and goings. The itinerant carry stories of pain and remembrance, cruelty and kindness, renewal and possibility. They move among us, a constant pulse, escaping war, persecution and poverty or striking out on an adventure to build a better life in a distant land.

    They flow by the millions every year across

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