What kind of despair must haunt people who set out to sea in a crowded hold with small children in their arms? The book "The Shores Are Not in Sight" contains diary entries by Jitka Kosíková, a pediatric nurse, from her work on missions with Doctors Without Borders. Her task is to care for people lost in flight. She does not know if tomorrow will bring injured children in rubber boats, those with burns, the sick, whether there will be births on board, whether she will need to resuscitate, or how many children will be taken to the Italian mainland in a container reserved for the deceased. Memories of the mission in the collapsed Mediterranean amidst a humanitarian crisis alternate with insights from her work in the pediatric team of the mobile hospice Cesta domů and tender passages from her diaries concerning Jitka's relationships and excerpts from never-sent love letters.
