The Ware Family are huge Come From Away Fans.
So when The Day The World Came To Town by Jim Defede turned up at our family holiday last week it was read by three of us during our time away.
The Day The World Came To Town records the week in Gander, Newfoundland after the September 11 attacks in New York led to the closure of US airspace causing thirty-eight jetliners to diverted to the international airfield located at the town. Jim DeFede’s book predates the musical Come From Away, and is remarkable in that, instead of the dramatic license of the musical, the book simply records the real stories of a mixed cohort of people visiting a community that is extraordinary in its gracious welcome.
Some people are recognisable, some are new, and if anything the stories are more compelling – especially given the absence of dramatic license.
It is an uplifting read. You’ll laugh, you may cry, you’ll be moved.
And you’ll yearn for a world where people can live in generous and gracious unity, while also longing that the pain which seems necessary for such unity to arise would no longer occur.
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