Home Now: How 6,000 Refugees Transformed an American Town

Once a thriving mill city, Lewiston struggled for decades with economic decline and population loss. Then, beginning in the early 2000s, thousands of refugees and asylum seekers—many from Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo—arrived, transforming the city into one of the most Muslim communities in the United States.

In Home Now, journalist Cynthia Anderson returns to the town near where s...