Immigrant


Americanah
The Namesake
Pachinko
Interpreter of Maladies
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
Exit West
Transcendent Kingdom
Girl in Translation
Behold the Dreamers
The Joy Luck Club
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
Inside Out & Back Again
American Dirt
Crying in H Mart
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
44 books — 24 voters
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriNot Quite Not White by Sharmila SenLanguage of the Wound is Love by Megha SoodFasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
Desi Immigrant Experience
14 books — 3 voters

The Lip Reader by Michael Thal
Iranian Immigrant
1 book — 1 voter

Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiNever My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
386 books — 311 voters
Povestea doamnei Murasaki by Liza DalbyJaponia, Viata si obiceiurile by Ioan TimușSingură pe Drumul Mătăsii by Sabina FatiInvisible Women by Caroline Criado PérezWayward Women by Jane Robinson
Thinking outwards
11 books — 1 voter

Saif Sidari
I only ever know myself hanging, in the exulted tempest untouched by nativities—the possibilities of my name emptied to the firmaments, which could not care to claim me yet labour to intubate the clouds, blithely feeding my body to the greying furies. My own jettisoned to the moors, a bay of white polyester sheets, illuminated by ornate keys, bandaged after Catastrophe.
Saif Sidari, Visiting Hours

Charles Yu
You’re here, supposedly, in a new land full of opportunity, but somehow have gotten trapped in a pretend version of the old country.
Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

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