In his final novel, Rainbow People, Nicholas

Mosley offers us the distinctly twenty-firstcentury

story of a holy family. A man, a

woman, and a child walk together along the

coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near the

border between Greece and Macedonia. They

watch as a film is made about the refugee

crisis on the beach. While the mother and

father, joined by the filmmaker, contemplate

the meaning of the crisis, the limited powers

of art, the greater powers of fear and faith, the

child explores, plays, and constantly

transforms before their eyes. Months later, the

family travels from their home in England to

Calais, France, where an enormous refugee

camp called “the Jungle” has sprung up. Here,

in this unlikely place, the child shows the

adults a graceful way to face the future.

Mosley’s Rainbow People is a masterful,

powerful book about borders, politics, and

hope.