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East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres
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Sky's Bridal Train (Newly Weds #1)
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Troubled Pilgrimage: Passage to Pakistan
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Margot
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The Sacrifice
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The Informers
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What Was Promised
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Death of Riley (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #2)
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In an Antique Land
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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The Interpreter
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It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art
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Richard Russo (Goodreads Author)
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
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The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy--Rights of Passage / Islands / Masks
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The Hero's Walk
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The Tenth Muse
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Boston Adventure
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The Sweetness of Tears
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A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South
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A Horse's Tale: Ten Adventures in 100 Years
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The Siren of Sussex (Belles of London, #1)
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Huir para encontrarte: No puedes escapar de ti mismo
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Andrea Romero (Goodreads Author)
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The Great Divide
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Cristina Henríquez (Goodreads Author)
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Krik? Krak!
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Crossing The Border
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Ksenia Rychtycka (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Amerika
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Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
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My Family for the War
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Tia Isa Wants a Car
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Meg Medina (Goodreads Author)
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Whirlwind (Only in Gooding, #3)
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Voices From Kibuli Country
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Just So Happens
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For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)
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4.03 avg rating — 8,461 ratings
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I Botany Bay
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Bethan Gwanas (Goodreads Author)
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Me and Mr. Mah
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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
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In Farleigh Field
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Rhys Bowen (Goodreads Author)
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Nosotros los Dreamers: Life Stories on the Other Side of the Border
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The Story of a Brief Marriage
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Anuk Arudpragasam (Goodreads Author)
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Gehen, ging, gegangen
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Watercress
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Andrea Wang (Goodreads Author)
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Gooseberries to Oranges
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Stepmotherland
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Say Hello to My Little Friend
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Jennine Capó Crucet (Goodreads Author)
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Sueños... ve por ellos: Un recorrido lleno de aventuras
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Boat People
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A Home on the Field: How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America
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Under the Mesquite
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Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Goodreads Author)
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An Untamed Heart (Red River of the North #0)
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Lauraine Snelling (Goodreads Author)
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Redemption Rain
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Murder in Chinatown (Gaslight Mystery, #9)
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In Like Flynn (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #4)
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Green Island
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Unspoken Rules
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Another Winter, Another Spring: A Love Remembered
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Piece By Piece: Stories About Fitting Into Canada
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Teresa Toten (Goodreads Author)
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Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time (TED Books)
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Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives
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The Shoemaker's Wife
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Adriana Trigiani (Goodreads Author)
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Love After Love
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The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
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Benny
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When We Left Cuba (The Perez Family, #2)
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Chanel Cleeton (Goodreads Author)
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The Taste of Sugar
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Marisel Vera (Goodreads Author)
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Beyond Sangre Grande
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Cyril Dabydeen (Editor)
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A House for Mr. Biswas
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The Horse of the Americas
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The Hanging on Union Square
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Anya's Ghost
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Vera Brosgol (Goodreads Author)
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How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay
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Julia Alvarez (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 1,979 ratings
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Without a Country
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Threads: From the Refugee Crisis
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Secret Daughter
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Shilpi Somaya Gowda (Goodreads Author)
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A Girl Divided
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Chemistry
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Our Country Friends
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Gary Shteyngart (Goodreads Author)
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In the Country
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Bitter Herbs and Honey
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Rebecca and Ana (American Girls: Rebecca, #2)
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Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist
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Julie Leung (Goodreads Author)
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Alexander Hamilton
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Real Americans
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Rachel Khong (Goodreads Author)
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Sour Sweet
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Petropolis
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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía
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Mr. Sammler's Planet
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... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
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Flesh, Tongue
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The Irish in America
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Return to Sender
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Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
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Enrique's Journey
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Until We Reach Home
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Lynn Austin (Goodreads Author)
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A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories
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Burnt Shadows
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The Family Tree
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Sairish Hussain (Goodreads Author)
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Rainbow Bridge
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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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