Tuesday, June 25 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. educator, activist, and author Sarah Towle will be presenting her new book Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands at Huntington Woods Public Library (26415 Scotia Rd, Huntington Woods, MI 48070). Copies of Crossing the Line will be available to purchase courtesy of Book Beat. Find out more information about this event at the Huntington Woods Public Library website.
Family separation and “kids in cages” drove Towle to the US southern border in January 2020 and thus began her journey from outrage to activism. Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands looks not only at the US’s broken immigration system, but at the global deterrence-detention-deportation complex that is failing everyone—save the profiteers who benefit from it. Within the web of normalized cruelty, however, Towle finds hope and inspiration in the extraordinary acts of ordinary people who prove, every day, there is a better way.
“Sarah Towle has obliterated today’s dead-end arguments about immigration and transformed them into riveting human stories.”—Ken Burns
“For anyone who wants to understand the reality of our dysfunctional immigration system beyond slogans.”—Scott Allen
“A powerful expose of the human costs of America’s immigration policies.”—Kirkus Reviews
Sarah Towle is an educator, researcher, and writer; a human rights defender, nature lover, and choral soprano. She resides in an ephemeral borderlands, buffeted and buoyed by a diversity of languages, cultures, landscapes, and creeds. She has taught English language literacy, cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution skills, and the writing craft for three decades across four continents in myriad classroom contexts, including under the trees in refugee settings. An award-winning children’s author, Sarah has earned accolades for her interactive tales for educational tourism. Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands is her debut full-length book. Sarah is the proud mother of a powerful, confident adult woman. She is grateful to have found her soulmate, who triples as her editor and personal chef. She and her family share a home in London with their rescue hound, Gryffindog, who keeps everyone laughing and gets Sarah away from her desk and walking every day. In addition to getting Crossing the Line across the line, Sarah publishes opinions, stories, and audio-tales regularly on Substack: Tales of Humanity. Find her podcast, From the Borderlands, wherever you listen. Learn out more about Sarah at sarahtowle.com.