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31. Emma Jane Kirby, The Optician of Lampedusa: A Tale of Rescue and the Awakening of Conscience

I picked up Emma Jane Kirby’s The Optician of Lampedusa: A Tale of Rescue and the Awakening of Conscience in Otis and Clementine’s, the used bookstore/café/cat rescue I visited in Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia. I thought it might be a book at least tangentially related to walking–or perhaps walking-adjacent–because the refugees fleeing Afghanistan, Iraq, and … Continue reading 31. Emma Jane Kirby, The Optician of Lampedusa: A Tale of Rescue and the Awakening of Conscience

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