GlobalReads: Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here—The United States, Central America, and the Making of a C

GlobalReads: As WorldOregon celebrates its 75th year, join us as we revisit a key part of our origin-story as the region's preeminent global affairs organization: the power of small-group discussion!  Throughout 2025, WorldOregon is convening a book-salon and discussion series with new and notable titles that connect us to a rich landscape of global issues and ideas!  We are very excited to be working with our treasured community partners at Broadway Books for this series. 

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, PBS NewsHour, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Lunch, Christian Science Monitor, and Counterpunch.

For this GlobalReads event we’ll be discussing Jonathan Blitzer’s Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis. With this critically-acclaimed work, Blitzer brilliantly weaves the stories of Central Americans whose lives have been devastated by chronic political conflict and violence with those of American activists, government officials, and the politicians responsible for the country’s tragically tangled immigration policy—revealing a powerful and richly layered picture of this vast and unremitting conflict.

Read the book and join the discussion on this timely and prescient topic!

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