[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.

Readers should not flinch from this emotion but look it directly in the face, and let Hayden’s vital reporting make them reconsider their view of what makes a moral world..

Hayden differentiates the terms migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker in a helpful terminology section...Along with the terminology note, a map showing the route would be helpful in subsequent editions.

Harrowing.

A powerful, horrific account.