Join us in person in the Steinberg Room and over Zoom on Sunday October 19th at 4:30p as Amnesty International Mid-Hudson presents an event with author Sarah Towle on the new edition of her book Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. Register to receive an email reminder the day before the program. Registration is optional.

Book description: "It was family separation and 'kids in cages' that drove Sarah Towle to the US southern border. On discovering the many-headed Hydra that is the US immigration system—and the heroic determination of those caught under its knee—she could never look away again. Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands charts her journey from outrage to activism to abolition as she exposes, layer by 'broken' layer, the global deterrence to detention to deportation complex that is failing everyone—save the profiteers and demagogues who benefit from it. The book is a tapestry of oral storytelling, history, and memoir in which Sarah finds hope in the extraordinary acts of ordinary people who prove, every day, there is a better way. Amplifying their voices and celebrating their efforts, Sarah urges us to act before we travel much farther down our current course—one which history will not soon forgive, or forget."



Author bio: "Sarah Towle is an educator, researcher, and award-winning author; a human rights defender, nature lover, and choral soprano. She resides in an ephemeral borderlands, buffeted and buoyed by a diversity of languages, cultures, landscapes, and creeds. She has taught English language literacy, cross-cultural communication, conflict resolution skills, and the writing craft for three decades on four continents across the age span in myriad class contexts, including under the trees in refugee settings. Sarah has received accolades for her pioneering interactive place-based tales for educational tourism. Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, her debut full-length book, won a Nonfiction Authors Association Gold Award within one week of publication. To learn more about book and author, please visit www.sarahtowle.com."



Ken Burns on Crossing the Line: “We all deserve a narrative with clarity, and Towle has delivered. Spectacular!”