Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

This discussion thread is to mark your completion of the December challenge to fulfill prompt #25 A book where the main character is an immigrant or refugee
International Migrants Day is December 18, 2025!

Please include the following information about this book:

Title:
Author:
Would you recommend this book?

Title: When the Emperor Was Divine

Author: Julie Otsuka

Would you recommend this book? Yes. It's heartbreaking but honest look at the internment of Japanese immigrants who were legally living here and were sent off to camps. I read a number of books that would qualify for this prompt, but this was so touching, intimate, and loving and horrifying, by turns, that I'd recommend it to people, looking for the face of what the USA did to its Japanese immigrants. Beautifully written.

Title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Author: Agatha Christie
Would you recommend this book? (Hercule Poirot was Belgian and he immigrated to the UK) This book is considered one of Agatha Christie's top 3 books (with Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None) If you like mysteries, I highly recommend this one.

Title: The Committed
Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Would you recommend this book? Yes! I found this follow-up to The Sympathizer to be just as thought-provoking as its predecessor. I did the audiobook version, which was narrated by François Chau and was superb. If you are willing to challenge yourself and your beliefs, this may be a good pick for you.

Dubhease wrote: "Title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Author: Agatha Christie
Would you recommend this book? (Hercule Poirot was Belgian and he immigrated to the UK) This book is considered one of Agatha..."

I am just finishing up a reread of this for the 52 Book Club's Agatha Christie Challenge. To put it in gaming terms, Christie leveled up with this book, as it is significantly better than her first six volumes.