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Immigrant Stories: Fiction
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Try these fictional stories of long journeys, culture clashes, resilience, and adaptation
Updated June 5, 2023
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Little Bee
Cleave, Chris.
Paper Book
The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan and a well-off British woman collide in this page-turning #1 New York Times bestseller and book club favorite from Chris Cleave. We don't want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don't want to...
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Well-behaved Indian women
Dave, Saumya
Paper Book
Simran has always felt harshly judged by her mother, Nandini, and when a highly respected journalist careens into her life, she begins to question everything. Nandini has strived to create an easy life for her children, so much so that she's let herself slip away. Mimi failed her daughter, Nandini,...
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Hella
Gerrold, David
Ebook
A master of science fiction introduces a world where everything is large and the problems of survival even larger in this exciting new novel. Hella is a planet where everything is oversized--especially the ambitions of the colonists. The trees are mile-high, the...
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The map of salt and stars
Joukhadar, Jennifer Zeynab
Paper Book
"This imaginative but very real look into war-torn Syria is a must." -Booklist (starred review) This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart--a modern-day...
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Searching for Sylvie Lee : a novel
Kwok, Jean
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick & Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick! NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY New York Times * Time * Marie Claire * Elle * Buzzfeed *...
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Deep river : a novel
Marlantes, Karl
Ebook
Three Finnish siblings head for the logging fields of nineteenth-century America in the New York Times-bestselling author's "commanding historical epic" (Washington Post).Born into a farm family, the three Koski siblings--Ilmari, Matti, and Aino--are raised to maintain...
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Memoirs of a polar bear
Tawada, Y¿ko
Ebook
The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as "Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness"--Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East...
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No ocean too wide : a novel
Turansky, Carrie
Audiobook
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Into the beautiful North : a novel
Urrea, Luis Alberto.
Audiobook
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who left the family to work in the United States. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village-they've all gone north....
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Snow hunters
Yoon, Paul.
Paper Book
A haunting literary debut of a Korean POW learning to adapt to a new life in Brazil from the novelistNew York Magazine calls a "quotidian-surreal craft-master." Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, who defects from his country at the end of the Korean...
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