'Many Rivers to Cross' Book Launch
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About the Event
Dylan Moore – writer & journalist
Dylan Moore grew up near Brecon, Powys and lived in Cardiff and Valencia. He now lives with his family in Newport.
Dylan’s new novel, Many Rivers to Cross (Three Impostors, 2021) was the recipient of a research grant from the Global Academy of Liberal Arts.
Many Rivers to Cross
Aman is a failed asylum seeker. David is a journalist. Jasmine is a sex worker. Mike is a lorry driver. Claudie is a churchgoer. Selam is a single mother. Solomon is a refugee. Gareth is dead. But such labels disguise the ways their lives are bound up in each other.
When Aman goes missing, presumed drowned in the river Usk, David embarks on an unexpected journey, ending face down in the dust of Addis Ababa. When Mike crosses the Channel, unaware of four men stowed in the back of his lorry, he has no idea Solomon will turn up at his local pub. And when Selam feels the first flutter of life inside her, she could not begin to imagine her daughter flying high – a poet-princess of their strange new homeland.
“If you want to understand the so-called refugee ‘crisis’, start here.” – Ben Rawlence
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