"In one of the first works of narrative nonfiction on the ongoing refugee crisis ... [this book] describes the ... stories and the ... decisions that migrants have to make as they head toward what they believe is a better life: a pregnant Eritrean woman, four days overdue, chooses to board an obviously unsafe smugglers ship to Greece; a father, swimming from a sinking ship, has to decide whether to hold on to one child or let him go to save another"--Amazon.com.

2011. A dictator's revenge ; Into the storm ; Welcome to Europe -- 2012. Married to the military ; Sleeping on the roofs of police stations ; Three friends -- 2013. A family betrayal ; An indefinable suffering ; Never again ; Fortress Europe ; Our sea ; Europe turns ugly ; Escaping 13V105 -- 2014. Hunted ; All alone ; A very long transit ; A lifeline cut off -- 2015. ghosts on the horizon ; At the crossroads of Europe ; Dark thoughts ; A moral emergency ; Lockdown -- Epilogue: No direction home.