Immigrant


Americanah
The Namesake
Pachinko
Interpreter of Maladies
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Exit West
Girl in Translation
Behold the Dreamers
The Joy Luck Club
Transcendent Kingdom
Inside Out & Back Again
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
American Dirt
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Love and Vertigo by Hsu-Ming TeoThe Happiest Refugee by Anh DoRoom for a Stranger by Melanie ChengChai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari ChandranBeyond the Blue Mountains by Jean Plaidy
Australian Immigrant Lit
147 books — 6 voters
They Dream in Gold by Mai SennaarGreat Joys, Great Sorrows by Michael MeguidThe Refugees by Viet Thanh NguyenSlow Noodles by Chantha NguonWorm by Edel Rodriguez
Immigrant/2nd Generation Stories
29 books — 2 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherChasing the Devil by Tim ButcherSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan BraithwaiteBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
Great Modern African Reads
88 books — 55 voters
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie LeongThe Adventurous Summer by Mabel Esther AllanMortimer's Portrait on Glass by Joan AikenThe Diddakoi by Rumer GoddenCharley by Joan G. Robinson
Gypsy Caravan - Vardo - Romani Wagon
63 books — 5 voters

Tehran Moonlight by Azin SametipourRooftops of Tehran by Mahbod SerajiA Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina NayeriEqual of the Sun by Anita Amirrezvani乙嫁語り 7 [Otoyomegatari 7] by Kaoru Mori
Fictitious Iran
43 books — 23 voters
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriNot Quite Not White by Sharmila SenLanguage of the Wound is Love by Megha SoodFasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
Desi Immigrant Experience
14 books — 3 voters

Abhijit Naskar
Better abandon citizenship than abandon your dream.
Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

Mehmet Murat ildan
If you run away without looking back when you see a danger, you will only save yourself, not your honour! The same thing will happen if you run away when there are dangerous developments in your country!
Mehmet Murat ildan

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