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The Other Side of the Dream: What They Never Told Us About Leaving Home
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ISBN13: 9798199374255
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before any of us understood what a border
crossing required, we already knew - with
the certainty of children who have learned
something without being taught it - that
somewhere on the other side of the world,
life was better. We were right about the somewhere.
We were unprepared for the cost. Through the stories of five people who left
crossing required, we already knew - with
the certainty of children who have learned
something without being taught it - that
somewhere on the other side of the world,
life was better. We were right about the somewhere.
We were unprepared for the cost. Through the stories of five people who left
everything they knew - a grandfather's land
sold in an afternoon, three years of elevator
rides as an invisible woman, eleven years of
monthly transfers without a single vacation,
two years of sleepless nights told to no one,
fifteen years of being more than the world
could see - The Other Side of the Dream tells
the truth that photographs never show. It is not a success story.
It is not a cautionary tale.
It is the book that should have existed
before any of us left.
sold in an afternoon, three years of elevator
rides as an invisible woman, eleven years of
monthly transfers without a single vacation,
two years of sleepless nights told to no one,
fifteen years of being more than the world
could see - The Other Side of the Dream tells
the truth that photographs never show. It is not a success story.
It is not a cautionary tale.
It is the book that should have existed
before any of us left.
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