comment on theme

Through the memoir’s portrayal of different characters’ responses and reactions to migration, the memoir offers a range of perspectives on migration. As a result, Knitting the Fog encourages readers to see migration through a more balanced perspective than the sensationalized and sentimentalized versions sometimes presented on the news or in the media. Instead, Knitting the Fog shows that the experience of migration is one marked both by loss and gain, by hope and sorrow, and by pain and joy.