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"In the tradition of Friday Night Lights and Outcasts United, ONE GOAL tells the inspiring story of the soccer team in a town bristling with racial tension that united Somali refugees and multi-generation Mainers in their quest for state--and ultimately national--glory. When thousands of Somali refugees resettled in Lewiston, Maine, a struggling, overwhelmingly white town, longtime residents grew uneasy. Then the mayor wrote a letter asking Somalis to stop coming, which became a national story. While scandal threatened to subsume the town, its high school's soccer coach integrated Somali kids…
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 2019Hachette Books · 339 pages · 9780316396554
- Hardcover · English · 2018Hachette Books · 448 pages · 9780316511018
- Other · English · 2018Hachette Books · 304 pages · 9780316396547
- Other · English · 2018Hachette Books · 9780316396578
Race relationsSomalisCultural assimilationImmigrantsLewiston High School (Lewiston, Me.)Social conditionsSoccerRefugees






