Pasi Sahlberg is a Educator who has worked in many roles related to education from Finland. He has written books on improving the education system and mostly criticized about the American Education system.
Apart from criticizing the system, he has also given many suggestions to improve the education system in America. Right now, He is a professor of education policy at the Gonski Institute for Education, University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia
Answer: The author of A fateful Journey uses historical fact from Moving to America in order to influence his story and its effect as a whole.
The author actively choses which historical facts will be used, which will be excluded bu if they need to be modified in order to make the reading more engaging or apealing to the reader. The result is what critics call historiographic metafiction.