Quoting the author: "it's the story of a soccer team for young refugees, of the remarkable woman who founded that team, and of the town where these people came together."
It is also remarkable that a successful reporter would pull up stake from New York city to relocate to Clarkston, Georgia to write this story. Until I read this book, I have never thought about where all the refugees go to after they enter the United States. In just one team of soccer players, we have boys from Sudan, Congo, Kosovo, Gambia, Burundi, Afghanistan, Liberia, Bosnia, and Iraq.
The first thing that Elizabeth thought about was sending a small sum to support such a meaningful enterprise. I have noted the film deal and the commercial support as well as financial support from a National newspaper. I am glad that Luma, Tracy and the Fugees players do not have to struggle on their own anymore in a land of plenty.
For my daughter who hardly follow the different conflicts around the world, this book opened her eyes. She particularly likes the fact that the author did not assume every reader would know what happened when in those war torn countries, he just explained enough so that readers like Elizabeth would get enough back ground information to appreciate what was being related.
Like those who voluntarily and continue to work with the refugees in Georgia, my family and I have experienced the gracious generous ways of dirt poor subsisting farmers in Thailand and Borneo. Folks in my present church continue to work with the poor and the marginalized in Myanmar. There is something refreshing about those who are untouched by the unrelenting materialism in modern society.
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