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The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.02 — 289,383 ratings — published 2003
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.31 — 426,404 ratings — published 2013
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.18 — 211,562 ratings — published 1999
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.97 — 718,678 ratings — published 1989
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.89 — 283,461 ratings — published 2007
Girl in Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.99 — 59,528 ratings — published 2010
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,567 ratings — published 2016
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.99 — 443,488 ratings — published 2019
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.14 — 98,123 ratings — published 2008
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.71 — 66,028 ratings — published 2011
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.75 — 169,357 ratings — published 2009
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.34 — 692,043 ratings — published 2017
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.74 — 155,146 ratings — published 2017
The Book of Unknown Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.90 — 47,168 ratings — published 2014
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.92 — 165,603 ratings — published 2009
Little Bee (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.72 — 250,701 ratings — published 2008
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.46 — 36,476 ratings — published 2003
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.36 — 724,775 ratings — published 2020
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.79 — 180,784 ratings — published 2000
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,815 ratings — published 2011
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.22 — 647,077 ratings — published 2021
A Woman Is No Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.25 — 188,120 ratings — published 2019
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.35 — 41,571 ratings — published 2017
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,740 ratings — published 2017
My Ántonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.85 — 152,262 ratings — published 1918
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.61 — 33,981 ratings — published 1991
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.09 — 168,463 ratings — published 2020
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.34 — 439,182 ratings — published 2009
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.67 — 251,049 ratings — published 1984
The Arrival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.35 — 60,939 ratings — published 2007
American Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,542 ratings — published 2017
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 28 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.35 — 47,802 ratings — published 2018
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.60 — 23,959 ratings — published 2006
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.93 — 114,612 ratings — published 2017
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,610,764 ratings — published 2003
The Refugees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.86 — 22,559 ratings — published 2017
Enrique's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,430 ratings — published 2005
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.66 — 35,246 ratings — published 1995
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.00 — 144,653 ratings — published 2015
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.88 — 97,740 ratings — published 2013
Beautiful Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.16 — 40,368 ratings — published 2021
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.92 — 76,298 ratings — published 2020
The House of Broken Angels (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,586 ratings — published 2018
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,008 ratings — published 2004
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.05 — 320,437 ratings — published 2009
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.21 — 91,103 ratings — published 1997
House of Sand and Fog (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.86 — 137,495 ratings — published 1999
Other Words for Home (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.40 — 35,601 ratings — published 2019
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 4.47 — 428,611 ratings — published 2016
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as immigrant-experience)
avg rating 3.95 — 364,894 ratings — published 2016
“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 achievements will be attributed to a whole community; and, in the same way, their failures will be charged up to something bigger and older than themselves, be it family, religion, or ethnicity. While the journey of life may be full of reversals of fortune, children from displaced families can never allow themselves to fall below the level at which their parents started it out.”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
“And as any mixed-race person will tell you—to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
