By Warren St. John

The intense story of a refugee adolescence football workforce and the transformation of a small American town

Clarkston, Georgia, was once a customary Southern city until eventually it was once specific a refugee payment heart within the Nineties, turning into the 1st American domestic for ratings of households in flight from the world’s conflict zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. unexpectedly Clarkston’s streets have been jam-packed with girls donning the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and children of all colours enjoying football in any open area they can locate. the city additionally turned domestic to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian lady who based a early life football group to unify Clarkston’s refugee teenagers and retain them off the streets. those teenagers named themselves the Fugees.

Set opposed to the backdrop of an American city that with out its consent had turn into an unlimited social test, Outcasts United follows a pivotal season within the lifetime of the Fugees and their charismatic trainer. Warren St. John records the lives of a various workforce of youngsters as they miraculously coalesce right into a band of brothers, whereas additionally drawing a desirable portrait of a fading American city suffering to house its new arrivals. on the heart of the tale is fiery trainer Luma, who relentlessly drives her gamers to good fortune at the football box whereas retaining jointly their lives—and the lives in their families—in the face of a chain of daunting challenges.

This fast paced chronicle of a unmarried season is a posh and encouraging story of a small city turning into an international community—and an account of the creative and complex methods we create a house in a altering international.