A chronicle of escape and pursuit, pilgrimage and exile.
A true story of real life in another dimension.
Lost on Earth
Nomads
of the New World
A Book
By
Pulitzer
Prize-winning Journalist
Mark
Fritz
"Lost on Earth," Mark Fritz's survey
of the lives of contemporary refugees, reads like a volume of beautifully
imagined short stories, and its addictive quality makes me wonder whether
I loved it for the wrong reasons. Of course, they're the right reasons,
too. In showing us the people usually reduced to terrible statistics …
he makes all those foreign tragedies that clot the opening pages of the
newspaper immediate and real. And he isn't simply compassionate: Beyond
the gift of empathy he has an invaluable knack for liking his troubled
subjects. As in "Angela's Ashes," the sparkle of personality turns a book
you might expect to be unrelentingly grim into one that you don't want
to end.
SALON
| March 24, 1999
