19 Books About Refugees That Everyone Should Read

"The Verging Cities" ($17)

Winner of the 2017 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, "The Verging Cities" examines the "binational" towns of El Paso and Juarez, neighbors at the border between the US and Mexico. The author's poems offer a scathing look at the impact of border control in the region, as well as the prejudice and violence undocumented immigrants are subject to.