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My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
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Author:
Sally Hayden
Publisher:
Melville House
Date:
March 29, 2022
An account of the migrant crisis across North Africa, in a groundbreaking work of investigative journalism. With unprecedented access to people currently inside Libyan detention centers, Hayden's book is based on interviews with hundreds of refugees and migrants who tried to reach Europe and found themselves stuck in Libya once the EU started funding interceptions in 2017.
What The Reviewers Say
[A] devastating, moving, and damning account.
While the migrant trail takes Hayden as far as Liberia and Rwanda, her book is not, chiefly, a compilation of field dispatches. Her most startling reporting on this most global of subjects is done from her London flat. And yet Hayden’s account is no less immediate or distressing for her physical remoteness. It is indeed that very remoteness that affords her such intimate access to her subjects, most of whom know her only as a Twitter profile picture.
A meticulous account of the horrifying North African refugee crisis.
Despite her tireless courage, Hayden does not preach, and is deeply self-reflective about her reporting.
