Educator, activist, and author, Sarah Towle, will be here to talk about our broken immigration system as documented in her debut nonfiction book, Crossing the Line:  Finding America in the Borderlands. 

Family separation and “kids in cages” drove Towle to the US southern border in January 2020 and thus began her journey from outrage to activism.  In Crossing the Line Towle shows how these systems fail everyone – save a few powerful profiteers who benefit from it.  Within this web of normalized cruelty, however, Towle finds hope and inspiration in the extraordinary acts of ordinary people who prove, every day, there is a better way.

Copies of Crossing the Line will be available for purchase and signing.

“Sarah Towle has obliterated today’s dead-end arguments about immigration and transformed them into riveting human stories.” (Ken Burns, filmmaker) 

“For anyone who wants to understand the reality of our dysfunctional immigration system beyond slogans.” (Scott Allen, former editor of The Boston Globe).   

“A powerful expose of the human costs of America’s immigration policies.”  (Kirkus Reviews)