Excited to learn that a copy of this book is sitting on a shelf at an independent bookstore in Soho right now/ A week or so ago, roughly 1000 migrants were bussed to a building, retrofitted, I suspect, for tech companies that never came, not far from where I live in Brooklyn. Volunteers with these languages needed: Creole, Spanish, Russian, French. Conditions are bad, by design: the Mayor wants the message to be: Keep moving. You don't want to stay in NYC.
Ah, I didn't know this. This is so awful. I didn't know this at all and yet the story feels like an old one, the same told in Papers—that governments hope to disincentivize people from even wanting to stay in the country, demoralize to the point where they give up. What bookstore was it? I'm glad that the book was there and want to know what you think of it!
Excited to learn that a copy of this book is sitting on a shelf at an independent bookstore in Soho right now/ A week or so ago, roughly 1000 migrants were bussed to a building, retrofitted, I suspect, for tech companies that never came, not far from where I live in Brooklyn. Volunteers with these languages needed: Creole, Spanish, Russian, French. Conditions are bad, by design: the Mayor wants the message to be: Keep moving. You don't want to stay in NYC.
Ah, I didn't know this. This is so awful. I didn't know this at all and yet the story feels like an old one, the same told in Papers—that governments hope to disincentivize people from even wanting to stay in the country, demoralize to the point where they give up. What bookstore was it? I'm glad that the book was there and want to know what you think of it!
Bookstore: McNally Jackson!
This is so beautiful—thank you for sharing this gift today.
Thanks so much for reading Eunice. I kept thinking of you when I was reading Papers and how much you’d appreciate it.