The Last Caravan: The Power of Community at the End of Life

Author Anna Byrne’ s close friend Mary Morgan spent her life looking for community. As a youth, the pain of Mary’ s mother’ s death is made more difficult by her family’ s silent grief, financial problems and disapproval of her identity as a lesbian. At 17, Mary leaves her troubled home in Toronto to live among the Guna peoples of Panama— an adventure that ignites four decades of social justice work in war-torn countries around the globe. Flying kites with Bedouin children, smoking with Bos...