Immigrant Experience


The Namesake
Americanah
Interpreter of Maladies
The Joy Luck Club
Behold the Dreamers
Girl in Translation
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Unaccustomed Earth
The Buddha in the Attic
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
Pachinko
Exit West
The Book of Unknown Americans
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
Jeremy Atherton Lin
I never felt as much a citizen as I did when we became outlaws.
Jeremy Atherton Lin, Deep House

Elif Shafak
I want you to be very successful. Remember, people like us cannot afford to fail "People like us"… immigrants, exiles, refugees, newcomers, outsiders… Too many words for a shared, recognizable sentiment that, no matter how often described, remains largely undefined. Children of uprooted parents are born into the memory tribe. Both their present and their future are forever shaped by their ancestral past, regardless of whether they have any knowledge of it. If they flourish and prosper, their ach ...more
Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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