L'écriture de Laura McVeigh est façonnée par sa vaste expérience au sein de PEN International et son plaidoyer mondial pour la liberté d'expression. Son œuvre explore des thèmes complexes de politique mondiale et de droits de l'homme, donnant une voix aux perspectives souvent marginalisées. Elle examine avec brio l'interaction entre les vies individuelles et les forces sociopolitiques plus larges. Ses romans offrent des aperçus profonds sur la résilience humaine et la recherche de compréhension dans un monde interconnecté.
Fifteen year old Samar, the middle child, shares the story of her incredible journey on the Trans-Siberian Express - with the help of Napoleon, the Ticket Collector, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and her parents and siblings. Forced to flee Kabul as the Russians, then the Taliban, turn their lives inside out, the children and their parents face the loss of their world and their place in it.
"Ten-year old Lenny wants to save his home, Roseville, Louisiana, from the sinkhole that threatens to destroy it. His mother, Mari-Rose, unable to cope and dreaming of a better life, has abandoned him. His father, Jim, has returned from war suffering from PTSD. Lenny is homeless, sleeping rough in the bayou swampland, and his only true friends in the world are young Lucy Albert, the lonely town librarian, and long-retired schoolteacher Miss Julie Betterdine Valéry - who is still waiting on the return of her husband, Stanley, sent to war in Korea in 1952. Travelling between two storylines - the first taking place in 2011 in the Ubari Sand Sea in Libya, the second along the banks of False River, Louisiana, when the ripple effects of the Great Recession, pollution, environmental destruction and the rapidly rising waters are causing whole towns to empty out all along the Bayou, LENNY is a story about how we treat our planet and each other. It examines the nature of time and reality, conflict, family and love, and explores how hope and imagination can save us."--
Eigene Wege gehen und Einzigartiges erleben.