Guest Post- Deborah Ellis author of No Safe Place

I’d like to welcome Deborah Ellis, author of No Safe Place to As the Page Turns:

As a woman with a valid Canadian passport and ample pocket-money, travel is a breeze. I can cross borders, get visas, book plane tickets, all without worry or hassle. A trip to the other side of the world can be arranged and taken in a matter of hours. For others, leaving home to get to a better place is not nearly so easy. Borders are walls, bureaucrats are prison guards, paperwork is a mountain and nothing is safe. What separates me from them? Not virtue, not beauty, not talent. The only reason I can travel easily and they have to struggle is because of war and circumstance. There but for the grace of geopolitical realities go I.
I wanted to explore this struggle and to get to know some of the folks who go through it. Many migrants are unaccompanied minors, young people who are travelling the world all on their own at a time when young people in our world are often not allowed to walk to school by themselves. No Safe Place tries to look at the things that happen that make our views of the world different, and also tries to look at the things we have in common, because we are all human beings stuck together on this little blue planet.
If you’d like to write to Ms. Ellis she has given me permission to post her email address for anyone that would like to write to her.
dellis42@hotmail.com

Thank you Deborah for letting us glimpse into your world.
Happy Reading!
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