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Emigration Books
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What Is the What (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.15 — 87,627 ratings — published 2006
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.75 — 163,398 ratings — published 2009
Little Bee (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.72 — 249,295 ratings — published 2008
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.48 — 118,837 ratings — published 2010
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.31 — 417,733 ratings — published 2013
The Emigrants (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,604 ratings — published 1992
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.79 — 794 ratings — published 2009
Hitch 22: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,548 ratings — published 2010
Pnin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,061 ratings — published 1957
Ellis Island: A People’s History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.02 — 398 ratings — published 2009
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,043 ratings — published 2009
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.74 — 152,819 ratings — published 2017
Night Roads (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,026 ratings — published 1952
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.40 — 208,755 ratings — published 2007
The Last Runaway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.86 — 39,664 ratings — published 2013
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.68 — 240,051 ratings — published 1984
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.15 — 661,756 ratings — published 1996
The Russian Debutante's Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.57 — 7,449 ratings — published 2002
Brother, I'm Dying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,784 ratings — published 2007
The Arrival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.35 — 60,336 ratings — published 2007
Князь Феликс Юсупов - Мемуары (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.53 — 435 ratings — published
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.48 — 10,315 ratings — published 2024
El lunes nos querrán (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,104 ratings — published 2021
L'Art de perdre (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.38 — 9,450 ratings — published 2017
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.93 — 112,699 ratings — published 2017
Solito (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.48 — 81,256 ratings — published 2022
Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,120 ratings — published 2021
With Lots of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.22 — 455 ratings — published 2022
Refugee High: Coming of Age in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.18 — 627 ratings — published 2021
The Ungrateful Refugee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,595 ratings — published 2019
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,975 ratings — published 2014
Finding Papa: A Poignant Picture Book About Vietnamese Immigration, Love, and Courage for Kids (Ages 4-8)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.36 — 479 ratings — published 2023
Mary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,135 ratings — published 1926
An Evening with Claire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,267 ratings — published 1930
It's Me, Eddie: A Fictional Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,308 ratings — published 1978
The Gift (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,946 ratings — published 1937
Come On In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,107 ratings — published 2020
Mr Loverman (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,952 ratings — published 2013
Return to Sender (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,104 ratings — published 2009
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.34 — 646,289 ratings — published 2017
La Disparition de Josef Mengele (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,090 ratings — published 2014
A Long Petal of the Sea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.06 — 115,571 ratings — published 2019
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.18 — 207,876 ratings — published 1999
All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, The Legendary Irish Famine Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.84 — 423 ratings — published 2012
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.02 — 285,932 ratings — published 2003
Long for This World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.47 — 288 ratings — published 2010
A Bear Called Paddington (Paddington, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.24 — 87,396 ratings — published 1958
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 4.12 — 67,659 ratings — published 2011
The Enigma of Arrival (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as emigration)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,073 ratings — published 1987
“You only leave home when home won't let you stay.”
― Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
― Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
“Does anyone ever
want to leave their home?
The fresh fruit that drops from their backyard?
The neighbors who wiped their snot?
Does anyone ever
want to believe they won't come back?
To the dog that sniffs their heel,
to the bed that holds the echo of their body?
Is there relief in pretending it is temporary,
that one day it will be safe? That I will once again
wave to the kind school bus driver;
that I'll hold Carline's baby before he grows,
having never known me? They have no palm
trees in New York City, no leaves to shade me,
to brush against my cheeks like my mother's hands.
There is no one over there, alive or buried,
who held me as a child, who cradled me close,
who fed me from their table, who wiped my knees when
I fell & scraped them. Here, despite the bad & ugly,
is my home. & now I wish that I could stay. Does anyone ever
want to leave the place they love?”
― Clap When You Land
want to leave their home?
The fresh fruit that drops from their backyard?
The neighbors who wiped their snot?
Does anyone ever
want to believe they won't come back?
To the dog that sniffs their heel,
to the bed that holds the echo of their body?
Is there relief in pretending it is temporary,
that one day it will be safe? That I will once again
wave to the kind school bus driver;
that I'll hold Carline's baby before he grows,
having never known me? They have no palm
trees in New York City, no leaves to shade me,
to brush against my cheeks like my mother's hands.
There is no one over there, alive or buried,
who held me as a child, who cradled me close,
who fed me from their table, who wiped my knees when
I fell & scraped them. Here, despite the bad & ugly,
is my home. & now I wish that I could stay. Does anyone ever
want to leave the place they love?”
― Clap When You Land
