Diaspora


The Namesake
Interpreter of Maladies
Pachinko
Americanah
Homegoing
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Crying in H Mart
Unaccustomed Earth
The Joy Luck Club
White Teeth
Martyr!
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Yellowface
Girl, Woman, Other
The Refugees
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)
371 books — 242 voters
Migrations by J.L. TorresCece Rios and the Desert of Souls by Kaela RiveraThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz¡Todos a Celebrar! A Hispanic Customs and Traditions Alphabet... by Ma. Alma González PérezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Latinx Heritage Month Book Display
76 books — 13 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 — 1 voter
Becoming Malka by Mirta Ines TruppA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina LewyckaWhat Is Told by Askold MelnyczukPrisoners in the Promised Land by Marsha Forchuk SkrypuchUnder This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
Ukrainian Immigrant Fiction
60 books — 25 voters

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

Greg Egan
Inoshiro laughed. "So what am I now? Wise enough to be weak? Or strong enough to be foolish? ...more
Greg Egan, Diaspora

Elie Wiesel
I admired my father not only for his kindness and intelligence, but also for his memory. He could quote long passages of the Talmud and Plato, the Zohar and the Upanishads. He could recall in rich detail his visit to the ghetto in Stanislav, his first skirmish as a partisan, his arrival in Palestine. He envied the character of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, who remembered what he had done in his mother's womb and even in his father's desire. Immersed in his own past and the world’s, my father was nev ...more
Elie Wiesel, The Forgotten

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