The great escape : a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in America
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Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books, 2023.
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368 pages 368 pages ; 23 cm
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Berthoud Community Library District - NONFICTION | 331.11 SON | On Shelf |
Rampart Library District - Woodland Park - NONFICTION | 331.1173 SON | On Shelf |
Ridgway Public Library - NONFICTION | 331.11 SON | On Shelf |
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Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books, 2023.
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English
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Includes bibliographical references.
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"In 2007, Saket Soni received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to 20,000 dollars each to apply for this "opportunity" to rebuild oil rigs after Hurricane Katrina, putting their families into impossible debt. Soni traces the workers' extraordinary escape; their march on foot to Washington, DC; and their 31-day hunger strike to bring attention to their cause"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Soni, S. (2023). The great escape: a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in America . Algonquin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Soni, Saket, 1977-. 2023. The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America. Algonquin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Soni, Saket, 1977-. The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America Algonquin Books, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Soni, Saket. The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America Algonquin Books, 2023.
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