Adler University Library: Social Justice Resource Library: Fiction & Memoirs

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Finding Freedom
Finding Freedom is a thought-provoking Canadian documentary directed by Alan Goldman that follows the harrowing journeys of four asylum seekers fleeing persecution and human rights violations. The film sheds light on the disturbing conditions in refugee detention centers and the challenges faced by refugees even after finding freedom in countries like Canada. It highlights the work of private refugee sponsors and organizations, addressing the ethical responsibility to provide refugees with a dignified immigration and resettlement process

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Fun Home

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year * National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the Stonewall Book Award * Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.