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My Life With Ewa
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Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
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Israelis in Berlin
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A Deconstructed Heart
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Shaheen Ashraf-Ahmed (Goodreads Author)
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Crossing Borders: Personal Essays
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Sergio Troncoso (Goodreads Author)
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Tales from the Zirzameen
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The Twenty-Five Year Century: A South Vietnamese General Remembers The Indochina War To The Fall Of Saigon
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Tastes and Tales from Russia
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Unpolished Gem
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Dreaming in Cuban
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No Vacancy
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Raven Summer
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The Saffron Kitchen
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Picture Bride
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C. Fong Hsiung (Goodreads Author)
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Dining Out Around the Solar System (Dining Out Around The Solar System, #1)
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Clare O'Beara (Goodreads Author)
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Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China
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Home of the Brave
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Katherine Applegate (Goodreads Author)
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Le Québec, la Charte, l'Autre. Et après?
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Marie-Claude Haince (Editor)
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Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories
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Green Apple Red Book: A Trial and Errors: A Memoir of a Chinese-American
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The Free World
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Butterfly Tears
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Zoë S. Roy (Goodreads Author)
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Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)
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Sarah M. Eden (Goodreads Author)
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Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
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Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu
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Yi Shun Lai (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Black Album
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The Silence of Trees
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Valya Dudycz Lupescu (Goodreads Author)
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Left Across the Border: A Story of Teen Depression (Teen & Depression #1)
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Patrice M. Foster (Goodreads Author)
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Becoming Malka
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Mirta Ines Trupp (Goodreads Author)
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Роман про добру людину
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Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
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What Lies Between Us
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Nayomi Munaweera (Goodreads Author)
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1958: A Year to Remember
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Deep Singh Blue
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L'orda: quando gli albanesi eravamo noi
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How They Made It in America
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Fiona Citkin (Goodreads Author)
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Justice!
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Heath Daniels (Goodreads Author)
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Las Cucarachas
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Yongsoo Park (Goodreads Author)
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All That Matters
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A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
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A Mountain of Crumbs
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Elena Gorokhova (Goodreads Author)
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Untamed Shore
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author)
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The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, The Horse That Inspired a Nation
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Elizabeth Letts (Goodreads Author)
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Colette Baudoche
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There Is No Good Time for Bad News
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Aruni Kashyap (Goodreads Author)
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Vem har sagt något om kärlek? : Att bryta sig fri från hedersförtryck
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All Forgotten Now
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One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search for Her Father’s Russia
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Tania Romanov (Goodreads Author)
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Uncle Jacob's Ghost Story
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Maame
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Our Last Days in Barcelona (The Perez Family, #5)
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Chanel Cleeton (Goodreads Author)
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Pathway to the Western World: Growing Up in Korea During Turbulent Times
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The Mighty Six-Ninety (690)
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Dreamland
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Relatos de un chileno en Nueva York (Temporada #1, 1ra parte)
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Banyan Moon
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The Difference between Sociopaths and Psychopaths (Maya Book 2)
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The Turk and My Mother
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The Jew Store
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Remembering Laughter
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In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World
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When Luba Leaves Home
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Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
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Her Father's Daughter
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The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs
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The Free Man
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The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts
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Rifka Takes a Bow
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Almonds and Raisins
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Fauji Banta Singh: and other stories
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The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor
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Color of the Sea
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A Bride for Donnigan (Women of the West, #7)
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Homebase: A Novel
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Dying in a Strange Country
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The Linden and the Oak
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Home: Where Everyone Is Welcome: Poems & Songs Inspired by American Immigrants
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Girls' Night Out
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Liz Fenton (Goodreads Author)
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Kirsten's Surprise: A Christmas Story (American Girls: Kirsten, #3)
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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)
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Rated R Boy : Growing Up Korean in 1980s Queens
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Yongsoo Park (Goodreads Author)
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Dogs with Bagels
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The Red Umbrella
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Christina Diaz Gonzalez (Goodreads Author)
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The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
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নৈখন এতিয়া দূৰৈত
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Mangoes & MonkeyBread: Fruity Fun with Ella & Louis
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Emily Joof (Goodreads Author)
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Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936
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Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women
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The House of the Good Spirits
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The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2)
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Helen Hoang (Goodreads Author)
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I Am Not Who You See: An Illustrated Novel
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Krishnni Khanna (Goodreads Author)
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Migrante de transmilenio
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last
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Xóchitl González (Goodreads Author)
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The Island at the End of Everything
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Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Goodreads Author)
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How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
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Laura C. Chavez-Moreno (Goodreads Author)
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The Virgin Goddess
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Sons of Gods: Mahabharata
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The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
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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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