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I LIVE HERE is a visually stunning paper documentary, in which the lives of refugees and displaced people become at once personal and universal. It is a raw and intimate journey to crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi.
The voices we encounter are those of displaced women and children, told in their own words or by noted writers and artists, including Joe Sacco, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Phoebe Gloeckner, Chris Abani, and many others. The stories unfold in an avalanche: an orphan goes to jail for stealing leftovers. A grieving mother snaps photos of spaces left vacant by her vanished teenaged daughter. A child soldier escapes his army only to be saved by the people he was trained to kill. An elderly woman recounts the tumultuous history of fellow refugees. Threaded throughout these accounts is Mia Kirshner?s intimate travel narrative, brought vividly to life in collaboration with writer J.B. MacKinnon and designers Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons.
This groundbreaking book is but one element of a larger project known as the I Live Here Foundation, committed to establishing creative writing programs for marginalized people. The first program will launch in Kachere Juvenile Center in Lilongwe, Malawi. Further information is available at i-live-here.com.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Mia Kirshner works as an actor in film and television; most recently in Showtime?s The L Word and Brian De Palma?s The Black Dahlia. I Live Here is her first book.
J.B. Mackinnon is the award-winning author of Dead Man in Paradise and Plenty.
Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons are award-winning creative directors, most notably for Adbusters magazine, who have conceptualized books, magazines, television spots and major international advocacy campaigns.
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