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Sunrise Shows Late: A Novel
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Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America and a Stay of Several Years Along the Missouri (During the Years 1824, '25, '26, 1827) (Volume 1)
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A Girl From Zanzibar
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From Rats to Riches
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Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy
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Ira Sukrungruang (Goodreads Author)
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The Roots of Obama's Rage
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Dinesh D'Souza (Goodreads Author)
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Rolling the R's
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BUZZ
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A Change in the Weather (The Purana Qila Stories, #1)
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Shaheen Ashraf-Ahmed (Goodreads Author)
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What Is Told
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Nothing Comes Close
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Tolulope Popoola (Goodreads Author)
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Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter
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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
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The Empress of Australia: A Post-War Memoir
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From This Wicked Patch of Dust
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Shamshone: Sun Of Assyria
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Birds of Paradise Lost
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The Funeral Party
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The Small Print
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Escaping the Tiger
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Laura Manivong (Goodreads Author)
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What the Moon Saw
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Love versus Goliath
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Out of This Furnace
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Epic Adventure of Shiva, the Destroyer of Tripura (Book 1 of ANCIENTS Series)
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M. Vizhakat (Goodreads Author)
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El síndrome de Ulises
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Redeeming Brother Murrihy: The River to Hiruharama
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Antony Millen (Goodreads Author)
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We, the People
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Rise the Euphrates
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Carol Edgarian (Goodreads Author)
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The Harness Maker's Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas
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Cowboys and East Indians
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Nina McConigley (Goodreads Author)
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Notes for a War Story
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The 1842 Diary of Julia Turnau
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Julia Saeger Nierenberg (Editor)
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Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute
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Marta Fuchs (Goodreads Author)
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The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
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Fatima Bhutto (Goodreads Author)
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Boyhood Days - Book 2
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Dennis E. Adonis (Goodreads Author)
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Near The Hope
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Jennifer Davis Carey (Goodreads Author)
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Passing Unseen: Stories from New Domangue
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Prairie Ostrich
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Tamai Kobayashi (Goodreads Author)
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Digging Dusky Diamonds
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Graffiti Hack
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Elen Ghulam (Goodreads Author)
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Wildflower Girl (Children of the Famine #2)
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Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen
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Marilyn Chin (Goodreads Author)
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Argentina Seen As It Is
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Becoming American: Immigration is Good for Our Nation's Future
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Fariborz Ghadar (Goodreads Author)
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Forward
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Recollections of Jerusalem
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Girls.
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Jo Vraca (Goodreads Author)
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Forbidden Love in the Land of Sheba
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Qais Ghanem (Goodreads Author)
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Jeegareh Ma
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Rahela Nayebzadah (Goodreads Author)
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Immigrant Dreams & Alien Nightmares
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Yohannes Ishi
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Nabse Bamato (Goodreads Author)
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The Game of 100 Ghosts
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The House of Six Doors: An Autobiographical Novel
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The Sons and Daughters of Ham: Book I: A Requiem
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Dining Out with the Ice Giants (Dining Out Around The Solar System, #2)
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Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant (Latinos in Chicago and Midwest)
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José Ángel N. (Goodreads Author)
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Is It True What They Say About Black Men?: Tales of Love, Lust and Language Barriers on the Other Side of the World
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Jeremy Helligar (Goodreads Author)
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Makhorka: The Green Cigarette
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Love's Affliction
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Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
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The Paths of Marriage
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Mala Kumar (Goodreads Author)
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Antonio's Will
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Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini (Goodreads Author)
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A Heart Most Worthy
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A Decent Woman
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Eleanor Parker Sapia (Goodreads Author)
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Transatlantic, The Ballad of Thomas Fox
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NOT ALL AMERICANS ARE RACIST
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East in Eden
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Olas
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José Ramón Torres (Goodreads Author)
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L'ombre de l'olivier
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Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco
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The Embassy of Cambodia
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The Road Taken
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Ann Garratt (Goodreads Author)
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White Light
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Natasha and Other Stories
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David Bezmozgis (Goodreads Author)
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The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong
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Leland Cheuk (Goodreads Author)
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The Long March Home (Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series)
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Zoë S. Roy (Goodreads Author)
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The Death of Grandote
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BORDER WALL: One Nation, Divisible
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Longing for Home (Longing for Home #1)
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Slogans: Our Children, Our Future
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A Beginner's Guide to Acting English
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Flipping
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Eichin Chang-Lim (Goodreads Author)
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Pídele papeles a Santa Simpa
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Edible Bones
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Mallast: A Historical Novel
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Keeping Score
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The Undiscovered Island (Portuguese in the Americas Series)
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Darrell Kastin (Goodreads Author)
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Bitter Almonds
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Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
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VietnamEazy: A Novel About Mothers, Daughters and Food
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Trami Nguyen Cron (Goodreads Author)
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The Linotype Operator
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Michael Robert Wolf (Goodreads Author)
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Kalyna
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Pam Clark (Goodreads Author)
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Veritas The Pharmacological Endgame
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Double Cup Love
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The Clothes on Their Backs
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To Surju, With Love
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Secret Gardens
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A Girl Like That
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Tanaz Bhathena (Goodreads Author)
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I, Who Did Not Die
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The Year Of Uh
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Jud Widing (Goodreads Author)
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Apr 15, 2011 10:03PM
Just an FYI. Since you've tagged this list with aliens, it's showing up under the Science Fiction > Aliens genre.
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My vote is for Tortilla Curtain. Here's a post about Tortilla Curtain's relevance to the current immigration reform debate: http://newsworthynovels.blogspot.com/...
How are we defining "immigrant" here? I was surprised to see Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, since the protagonists were Japanese-Americans, born in the USA. It's an awesome book, but I am concerned about the political point of labeling the main characters exactly the way the US government did back then.Another one: Chinua Achebe's No Longer At Ease is NOT an immigrant story. I don't want to mess with the contributions if Jessica is still here and active, since she started it. But it should be recognized that not everyone who comes to the USA, UK, or other western countries prefers to live in the USA or other parts of the West, and in the case of Achebe's protagonist, he goes to England, gets his education, leaves to go back to Nigeria. Thousands if not more do this very thing every year. A person who lives in the UK,US or elsewhere for a limited time, and with a limited purpose, is not an immigrant, they are a visitor. This touches a personal chord for me, because I am married to a citizen of another country who lives in the USA, and well-intended people are constantly trying to hyphenate my spouse with "-American", and repeatedly we have to say, "Actually, no." There is a bias to the assumption that whoever sets foot on these golden shores must SURELY want to stay here forever.
Removed for not being about the immigrant experience/author spamming:The Girls on Rose Hill
Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
The Farther I Walk, the Closer I Get to Me b. Hong Mei
Hm. Bless Me, Ultima is on here, but it's most certainly not about immigrants or even immigration. Do people just assume that because it's about Spanish-speakers in New Mexico they immigrated there? They were there before it became part of the US...
Wow, there are sooo many books on this list that just do not belong by any stretch of the imagination. O.o
I understand why there are so many votes for Roots, but "immigrant" isn't the right descriptor there.
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