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Letters to the West

What the World Still Believes About Freedom

A book about courage, silence, and the cost of forgetting who we are.

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John Kemp

A Canadian author who writes about freedom, culture, and the responsibility we owe one another in a society beginning to doubt itself.

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About the book

Letters to the West is a narrative nonfiction book framed around a shoebox of letters left in a public library. These testimonies show how Western freedoms erode through small, polite exceptions—and the human cost that follows. It’s a book about silence, equal law, and the courage needed to protect both.

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the First Letter

“To whoever finds these pages—
I have spent my years walking through the wreckage of other people’s storms.
I taught in schools built from rubble and returned years later to find them rubble again.
I stood in tents that became homes, then prisons, then graves.
I translated whispers for men who had never spoken without fear, and watched women risk everything for the right to read even a single page…”

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What Early Readers Are Saying

“Human, courageous, unforgettable. Letters to the West is one of the rare books you can’t put down — or forget.”
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