Reading List: Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
Persephone Theatre is pleased to partner with Turning the Tide Bookstore to create book lists for our performances.
Lists will be curated by the Turning the Tide staff, to act as a supplement to what you see on our stage. They will help to expand your knowledge about the themes, history and information within our productions.
All the books on the list are available for purchase through the Turning the Tide website: turning.ca.
The following books are chosen for Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story Created by Hannah Moscovitch, Ben Caplan, & Christian Barry
List curated by Tracey Mitchell.
All titles below are 20% to 50% off during the run of the show only!
Adult Non-Fiction
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugeess
by Matthieu Akins
Homes: A Refugee Story
by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah & Winnie Yeung
Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home
by Mondiant Dogon with Jenna Krajeski
The Kitchen without Borders: Recipes and Stories from Immigrants and Refugees
by The Eat Offbeat Chefs
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
by Jonathan Freedland
Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
by Adam Hochschild
How to Be a Refugee: One Family’s Story of Exile and Belonging
by Simon May
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
by Gaia Vince
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by Harsha Walia
Adult Fiction
The Boat People
by Sharon Bala
What Strange Paradise
by Omar El Akkad
The Deceptions
by Suzanne Leal
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Ru
by Kim Thuy
Middle Years and Young Adult Books
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
by Thi Bui
Refugee
by Alan Gratz
Finding Home: The Journey of Immigrants & Refugees
by Jen Sookfong Lee
We Are Not From Here
by Jenny Torres Sanchez
Other Words for Home
by Jasmine Warga
Children’s Books
What is a Refugee?
by Elise Gravel
The Suitcase
by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
Klezmer
by Kyra Teis
