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Attorney Dan Berger and other members of our staff are regular contributors to a monthly Reader's Corner highlighting fiction and nonfiction related to immigration and international affiars for the magazine Immigration Law Today. The Pickup: Amid High Hopes and Painful Reality - Dan Berger reviews The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. This month's Reader's Corner also includes a shorter review of The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. Though set in different countries, both novels include characters struggling with the realities of being undocumented. Brandt Goldstein's Storming the Court - Dan Berger reviews this book about a group of Yale law students who sue the U.S. government to seek freedom for a group of Haitian citizens being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, their only crime being HIV-positive. Mark Dow's American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons - Dan Berger reviews reporter Mark Dow's book, which argues that abuses in U.S. immigration prisons have resulted from a lack of scrutiny and planning in a system that has grown to detain as many as 200,000 people annually. Americans in Waiting - Crossing the Threshold to Citizenship - Dan Berger reviews the book Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States by author Hiroshi Motomura. Home at Last! Chronicling the Lost Boys of Sudan - Dan Berger and Eliza Camire reviews What is the What by author Dave Eggers and God Grew Tired of Us, the memoir of John Bul Dau. Eritrea: A Little-Known Country with a Big History - Dan Berger and Jennifer Rogers review the book I Didn't Do it for You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation by British journalist Michela Wrong.
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