"We think of refugees as people who wait a lot and suffer," says author Kyo Maclear. She was determined to tell a different kind of story. Her illustrator, Rashin Kheiriyeh, fled Iran as a child.
An ambulance backs into a parking lot on Friday at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Washington state.
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Working on Coal Country helped Steve Earle write his upcoming album, Ghostsof West Virginia. Seven songs from that record are featured in the play.
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