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
Corações Sujos by Fernando MoraisOrientalism by Edward W. SaidNihonjin by Oscar Nakasato
Ser amarelo no Brasil
3 books — 2 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Blue Collar Books
192 books — 59 voters

The Immigrant and the Golden Coin by Dorothy May MercerJust Like Us by Helen ThorpeLethal Standoff by DiAnn MillsMid Ocean by T. Rafael CiminoThe Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Novels about Undocumented Immigrants
50 books — 88 voters
Goodbye, Tahrir Square by Zarmati ElioI Don't Want to Forget This by Paulina Lam EsparzaBeing Authentic by Morhaf Al AchkarThose We Throw Away Are Diamonds by Mondiant DogonThe Carousel Carver by Perdita Buchan
Best Immigrant Books and Memoirs
23 books — 29 voters

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
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

Ljupka Cvetanova
We’ll get out of the crisis. We’ve already packed our suitcases.
Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

I believe laughter is the shortest distance between two cultures — and the best therapy I never had to pay for.
Alireza (Tony) Fayyazi

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