"It was probably when I was arrested that I began to truly regret my first writing assignment."In his first quest as a freelance travel writer, Arnold has arrived in Lampedusa, the idyllic Italian island off the coast of Tunisia.He arrives looking for a story (and possibly a hankering for some of the local meatballs). Instead, Arnold finds a bucolic fishing town still coming to terms with its status as a gateway to Europe for Africa's migrants and refugees, the brutality of exile, and a world still grappling with its own humanity.