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Strangers in the Province of Joy: Practicing Radical Hospitality on the US - Mexico Border

Strangers in the Province of Joy: Practicing Radical Hospitality on the US - Mexico Border

Mary Fontana

Binding: Paperback

ISBN: 9781626986558

Page Count: 244

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*Advance Praise and Reviews*

“An incredibly uplifting story of how one community’s relentless hospitality and grace reveal the way to repair the deep damage we have done to the people of the Americas, to the border and to our spirit. These are the kind of heroes we need in America today. A must-read.” —Beto O’Rourke, former congressman and author, We’ve Got to Try
 
“Recounts a reservoir of community, ingenuity and commitment. . . . JUST WHAT WE NEED in this moment.” —Simone Campbell, SSS, author, A Nun on the Bus
An important, necessary, and heartbreaking book.—Benjamin Alire Sáenz, author of Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club

"Annunciation House is well-known to anyone working in immigration for the care and attention they give to migrants. In the same way, this book attends to the story of Annunciation House and the people who made it the beacon of hope it is today." —Alejandra Oliva, author of Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration

“Annunciation House is a rare beacon of hope in an increasingly dysfunctional immigration system. Mary Fontana provides the first detailed history of Annunciation House, documenting how volunteers motivated by faith provided “radical hospitality” to hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing poverty and persecution."—Robert Moore, El Paso journalist


 

This is the story of America writ small—a nation founded by immigrants and its shifting, oft-contradictory attitudes toward them. Since 1978, El Paso’s Annunciation House has welcomed over half a million people: migrants and refugees, doing what humans have always done to find sustenance and safety, and volunteers seeking meaning and purpose. Through this chronicle of their individual journeys, Mary Fontana exposes the forces driving global migration and challenges readers to confront the borders in their own hearts.

Mary Fontana has supported migrant hospitality efforts in El Paso for over two decades. She has written about the border for America, BorderLore, and Consequence. Learn more at maryfontana.com.

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Pauline H.

Mary Fontana does an excellent job of researching and writing about the history of Annunciation House, the Catholic-based house of hospitality modeled on “welcoming the stranger” and telling the stories of the people who passed through their doors. It’s a much-needed book about the shining example of the El Paso community’s radical hospitality and what’s possible when we follow the gospel.

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