The author, a former refugee herself, and a documentary photographer take readers to Katsikas, a refugee camp in Greece, to record the hopes and struggles of ten young lives, siblings and friends from Iran and Afghanistan.

"When Asad Hussein was growing up in the world's largest refugee camp, nearly every aspect of life revolved around getting to America--a distant land where anything was possible. Thousands of displaced families like his were whisked away to the United States in the mid-2000s, leaving the dusty encampment in northeastern Kenya for new lives in suburban America. When Asad was nine, his older sister Maryan was resettled in Arizona, but Asad, his parents,...