Go, Went, Gone

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By Susan Bernofsky *98

Published Nov. 9, 2017

Richard is a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin and one day visits African refugees staging a hunger strike. Go, Went, Gone (New Directions) is a portrait of a man who discovers he has much in common with the refugees and serves as an indictment of Western policies concerning the refugee crisis.

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