A Map of Future Ruins

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780593545577 Author(s): Lauren Markham Format: Hardcover Year: 2024 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc Pages: 272

Description: âThis stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories weâve been toldâand told ourselvesâin order to naturalize the forms of injustice weâve come to understand as order.â âLeslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams   When and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient Greece remain so important to the Westâs idea of itself? How does nostalgia fuel the exclusion and demonization of migrants today?      In 2021, Lauren Markham went to Greece, in search of her own Greek heritage and to cover the aftermath of a fire that burned down the largest refugee camp in Europe. Almost no one had wanted the campânot activists, not the countryâs growing neo-fascist movement, not even the government. But almost immediately, on scant evidence, six young Afghan refugees were arrested for the crime. Markham soon saw that she was tracing a broader narrative, rooted not only in centuries of global history but also in myth. A mesmerizing, trailblazing synthesis of reporting, history, memoir, and essay, A Map of Future Ruins helps us see that the stories we tell about migration donât just explain what happened. They are oracles: they predict the future.

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