My child read ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ a couple of years ago and promptly declared it one of the best books she had read. I added it to my reading list with the intention to read it some time in the future. When the announcement of the movie was…

In a visually-rich and spirited poem, called Home, the British-Somali poet Warsan Shire writes:
you have to understand,
no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land.
The heaviness of those words echo throughout the contemplative and heart-warming story Sharon Bala tells in The Boat People. …