Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

The more I learn of history, the more I see events repeating themselves. In some cases, it’s fascinating to see. In others, the repetition breaks my heart. For example, many people had pointed out the similarity in western countries denial of refugees from Syria is an awful lot like our denial of Jewish refugees before and during World War II. Dawn Anahid MacKeen’s book The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey, taught me that our treatment of Jewish refugees mirrored the West’s unwillingness to help Armenians when word got out that the Turkish government was trying to kill them all. The only thing that could make things any worse is that now, even a century later, the Turkish government refuses to admit that there was a genocide. There are laws on the books that prohibit Turkish citizens from speaking about it; activists and writers have been threatened and even killed for speaking out...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this ebook from NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. It will be published 12 January 2016.