Acclaimed author of the 2010 One Book, One San Diego selection, Warren St. John, will be at Isabel's Cantina on Thursday, February 18 at 6:30pm to discuss and sign his book, Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference. For this event Warwick's will be partnering with three of San Diego's finest independent booksellers: Mysterious Galaxy, Book Works, and Yellow Brick Road.

Event tickets are $25 - your ticket includes a small donation to the One Book One San Diego program, as well as a glass of wine and hors d’ouevres for you to enjoy while meeting with some of the refugees who have relocated to San Diego. Learn from them, and representatives from the International Rescue Center, about life as a refugee and the assimilation process. Warren St. John will then discuss and sign his book, Outcasts United. The book may be ordered with your tickets and will also be available at the event for sale.

About the book: Outcasts United is the story of a refugee soccer team, a remarkable woman coach and a small southern town turned upside down by the process of refugee resettlement. In the 1990s, that town, Clarkston, Georgia, became a resettlement center for refugees and a modern-day Ellis Island for scores of families from war zones in Liberia, Congo, Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to help keep Clarkston’s boys off the streets. These boys named themselves the Fugees -- short for refugees. Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees, their families and their charismatic coach as they struggle to build new lives in a fading town overwhelmed by change. Theirs is a story about resilience in the face of extraordinary hardship, the power of one person to make a difference and the daunting challenge of creating community in a place where people seem to have so little in common.

Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference (Paperback)

By Warren St. John

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780385522045
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Spiegel & Grau, 12/01/2009

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