Task 11: Read a Boxall book where immigration is a central element or that features an immigrant as a main character.

[Karen]

Use this Topic to discuss books you are reading or that fit the 11th Scavenger Hunt task.

Task 11: 2024 will be the Centennial of the enactment of the Immigration Act of 1924 in the United States. Read a Boxall book where immigration is a central element or that features an immigrant as a main character. (Contributed by Mercedes)

[Pamela]

I’ll probably read Small Island by Andrea Levy for this task

[Judy]

I really enjoyed Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado.

[Bob]

Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe, 1/23/24. The main character is an Englishman living as an immigrant in Italy.

[Debbie]

What about A Town Like Alice?

[Alice]

The Godfather by Mario Puzo. Vito Corleone came through Ellis Island.

[Karen]

Debbie wrote: "What about A Town Like Alice?"

Yes, it would fit the task.

[Elspeth]

I'm going to read Retreat without song

[Dina]

For this task I read Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl.
The book is a yearlong diary by Gesina Cresspahl, who moved from East Germany to the USA with her daughter in 1961.

[Caroline]

The Jungle It’s main characters are Lithuanian immigrants in Chicago, and the book is about how immigrants were exploited for labour.

[Kimberly]

White Teeth by Zadie Smith