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 Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiFusion of Reality by K VariaInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best Diasporic Fiction
20 books — 17 voters
Constellating Home by V. Jo HsuWhat My Bones Know by Stephanie FooPermission to Come Home by Jenny WangPedagogies of Woundedness by James Kyung-Jin LeeThe Woo-Woo by Lindsay Wong
Asian-American Intersections
6 books — 1 voter

The Jade Peony by Wayson ChoyIn the Skin of a Lion by Michael OndaatjeCan You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau BadamiRiver Thieves by Michael CrummeyMidnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates
The Canadian Immigrant Experience
91 books — 29 voters
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongCatfish and Mandala by Andrew X. PhamThe Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế MaiThe Quiet American by Graham GreeneThe Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Overseas Vietnamese Reading List
31 books — 11 voters

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
The Corpse Washer by Sinan AntoonThe Iraqi Nights by Dunya MikhailThe Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq by Hassan BlasimThe War Works Hard by Dunya MikhailThe Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim
Iraq in Diaspora
19 books — 10 voters

Monique Truong
I am forced to admit that I am, to them, nothing but a series of destinations with no meaningful expanses in between.
Monique Truong, The Book of Salt

André Aciman
You go out into the world to acquire all manner of habits and learn all sorts of languages, but the one tongue you neglect most is the one you’ve spoken at home, just as the customs you feel most comfortable with are those you never knew were customs until you saw others practice completely different ones and realized you didn’t quite mind your own, though you’d strayed so far now that you probably no longer knew how to practice them.
André Aciman, Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere

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