Immigrant Experience


The Namesake
Americanah
Interpreter of Maladies
The Joy Luck Club
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Girl in Translation
Behold the Dreamers
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Unaccustomed Earth
The Buddha in the Attic
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
Pachinko
Exit West
The Book of Unknown Americans
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
Elvira Cordileone
Depression isn’t just being a bit sad. It’s feeling nothing. It’s not wanting to be alive anymore.
Elvira Cordileone

Borders, though, are rarely as definite as they appear on maps. The longer you spend living around them, the less sense these kinds of simplistic divisions make. Frontiers are places where identities take on absurdly definite forms, in barbed wire fences and vigilante patrols. At the same time, they're places where boundaries between different cultures break down. Sicilian history is white, Christian and Western, certainly, but it has also been, and still is, black, Arab, Muslim among other thin ...more
Jamie Mackay, The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History

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