No books have haunted me quite like I Live Here. The stories, the people...
This book really makes you sit back and think about your life and how much we take for granted in our lives, this book is very detailed with real events so be prepared, there are different stories in this book different places its definitely a must read.
Very eye-opening book. Made me want to get up and do something for all of the people that this book talks about.
The anthology I Live Here is spearheaded by actress and debut author Mia Kirshner (The L Word) and collects four short books focusing on displaced women and children around the world. A hardcover sleeve opens to reveal four individual paperbacks to pull out and digest one at a time.
This compilation of four smaller books presents the stories of refugees in four different countries in a poignant unique format of mixed media: photographs, comics, journaling and travel writing.You'll be transported to Ingushetia (Russia)and the home of 15,000 refugees, to Burma with 100,000 people in refugee camps, to Juarzez, Mexico where women disappear from the streets, and to Malawi where over 20 percent of the population lives with AIDS.
Mia Kirshner and everyone that contributed to this book did a wonderful job. The book talks about displaced people from different parts of the world that you don't normally hear about.
I bought this book set as a Christmas gift for my Daughter. She read it and said that it is very good.
What sets this book apart from other similar ones is the cool minds and warm hearts of its creators. For someone who has been born/raised/lived in wealthy, developed nations, who must have taken basic human rights for granted, the exposure to such darkness must be shocking and enraging at times.
This is a must have book - very emotional reading - it really brings life into prespective & lets you appreciate how fortunate you are with the life you have.
The four books included in "I Live Here" are unbelievably well written. The investigation that took part to write the books is obviously of great importance and it must have been so hard to travel to the Countries where all these tragedies are happening.
I didn't know what to expect from Mia Kirshner's I Live Here, but by the time I was finished, I had discovered depths to the glamorous actress I never knew were there. Now I have an enormous amount of respect for Kirshner.
This was not what I expected it to be, but still a good, touching book. The format was definitely original.
What can I say that hasn't already been said about this AMAZINGLY produced book? If you have a heart go out and buy a copy of this book.
This is really beautifully written & designed and incredibly moving, but I'm really unsure how I feel about it. The manufacturing of emotion with no clear outlet beyond a book bothers me--just reading this book and becoming more aware doesn't actually change anything, it just makes the intended audience sit around thinking that the third world is just so terrible but somehow our awareness will magically make it better, while it also doesn't really make us feel at all implicated in the condition of these other parts of the world.
Moving, a look inside the lives of individuals who truly know what it means to suffer. It was hard to give it back to the library because I never felt truly "finished" with it.
