The Brink of Freedom

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By (author): Stella Leventoyannis Harvey

When a well-meaning Canadian aid worker in Athens decides to take a young refugee boy into her care, she is unexpectedly jailed and accused of kidnapping. The boy is just one of thousands who desperately cross the Mediterranean in rickety boats in the hopes of using Greece as the conduit to a better life elsewhere. But even here, on the brink of freedom, these refugees who have sacrificed so much could lose so much more.

AUTHOR

Stella Leventoyannis Harvey

Stella Leventoyannis Harvey is a fiction writer whose short stories have been short listed in contests such as the Writers Union short fiction contest. Her stories have appeared in The Literary Leanings Anthology, The New Orphic Review, Emerge Magazine, The Question and The Dalhousie Review. Her non-fiction has appeared in Pique Newsmagazine and the Globe and Mail. She has completed drafts of two novels and a collection of short fiction. A social worker by training, she ran a management consulting practice in Canada and abroad. She was born in Cairo, Egypt and moved to Calgary, Alberta as a child with her family. Much of her family still lives in Greece, where she visits often, indulging her love of Greek food and culture and honing her fluency in the language.