Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Winner of the 1982 Christopher Award

The Fragile Curtain was written after author Karen Mains trips through barrios and refugee camps in Central America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa in the late '70s to early '80s. In this deeply moving book, Karen Mains recounts her very personal journey through the crowded refugee camps of the world. She went to write about the pain and suffering of these people. Instead they showed her the meaning of her own life. The sacredness of family. The miracle of love. The hope of birth and death.

The Fragile Curtain went on to win the Christopher Award in 1982, an award that salutes media that "affirms the highest values of the human spirit."