6/21/2023 0 Comments Goat Song by Brad KesslerKessler knows something about being rooted. For his part, Teddy has returned to his roots after experiencing his own upheaval overseas. What happens when the paths of a monk, a refugee and a war veteran converge? While Christopher has chosen a life of rootedness and seclusion, Sahro suffers from the trauma of repeatedly being uprooted. Her companion, a volunteer transporting her to Canada, leaves her in the monks' care after their accident. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ankle monitor, Sahro is officially a fugitive. The year is 2017, and the national climate isn't friendly to people like Sahro - "everyone's plans thrown into doubt since talk of a Muslim Ban," Kessler writes. out of the hundreds of cases he heard each month, he granted asylum to less than two percent." recently reached a dead end when her case was assigned to "'the two-percent judge'. One of them is Sahro Abdi Muse, a young Somali refugee. He brings the two passengers to the monastery's guesthouse. Out plowing the next morning, Teddy Fletcher, the monastery groundskeeper and a disabled veteran of the war on terror, discovers a car in the ditch. Christopher Gathreaux, the cloistered abbot of Blue Mountain Monastery, rushes to cover his precious Northern Spy saplings. It opens with a May blizzard forecast for northern Vermont. Brad Kessler's North is a novel about being rooted in a sense of place - and uprooted.
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