Refugee High - Coming of Age in America

“A stunning and heart-wrenching work of nonfiction.”
—Chicago Reader

Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award
For a century, Chicago’s Roger C. Sullivan High School has been a home to immigrant and refugee students. In 2017, during the worst global refugee crisis in history, its immigrant population numbered close to three hundred—or nearly half the school—and many were refugees new to the country. These young people came from thirty-five different countries, speaking more than thirty-eight different languages.

Called “a feat of immersive reporting” (National Book Review), and “a powerful portrait of