Diaspora


The Namesake
Interpreter of Maladies
Pachinko
Americanah
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Crying in H Mart
Homegoing
Unaccustomed Earth
The Joy Luck Club
Martyr!
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Yellowface
Girl, Woman, Other
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
The Inheritance of Loss
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiAya by Marguerite AbouetNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Tour d'Afrique
71 books — 21 voters
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze ChooLinghun by Ai JiangShe Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh TranNothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra KhawLesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
Asian Gothic
10 books — 2 voters

The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanNever My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriNever My Father's Daughter by Bamini Selladurai
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,054 books — 1,709 voters
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriCutting for Stone by Abraham   Verghese
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
382 books — 258 voters


Israelis can win a war but in doing so they submit to us. They can occupy Palestine, yet they remain captive to the dialectic of its existence. They can banish the native presence, but cannot ostracize its reality.
Fawaz Turki, Soul in Exile

Elie Wiesel
Don't fight it, Tamar. Don't say no just for revenge; no more revenge. No more games. Let's take whatever comes along—the good and the less good alike—simply and in harmony. Despite pain and sorrow, we'll put our trust in what exalts us—my father’s relentless sufferings—and in what thwarts us, too—the ambiguities of life, most of all Jewish life in the diaspora. Will forge new links from which new sparks will rise. Spoken words will become signs, words unspoken will serve as warnings. And we'll ...more
Elie Wiesel, The Forgotten

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