In his final novel, Rainbow People, Nicholas Mosley offers us the
distinctly twenty-first-century 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.