Acknowledgments -- Preface: Their Story Is Our Story -- Author's Note -- Their Stories -- Giving Context to Refugee Stories (Fleeing -- Borders -- Smugglers -- Libya -- Seas -- Asylum) -- How You Can Help -- Photographers and Artists.

"Over the course of two years, a group of award-winning photographers, filmmakers, painters, and writers trailed and documented the flood of refugees pouring into the West from the Middle East and Africa, recording the refugees' firsthand accounts of who they are and what made them refugees. Spare, haunting, utterly magnificent, and profoundly human, this inspiring collection creates a portrait of the greatest humanitarian crisis of modern history. From the pregnant mother in the dusty warehouse-turned-refugee-camp in Greece; to the young Afghan refugee with a broken prosthetic leg, living under a bridge in Paris; to the woman who fled her village's cult and survived Libyan imprisonment--the people inside this remarkable volume of exquisite photography and stories of resilience will teach you that the surest way to draw humans together begins with the words "I want to tell you my story....""--back cover