Refugee Rights Day for Adults

Canada recognizes the rights of refugees each year on April 4. A selection of fiction and non-fiction books about the experience of refugees in Canada.

Updated April 4, 2025
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Crooked teeth : a queer Syrian refugee memoir
Ramadan, Ahmad Danny
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 EVERGREEN AWARD AN AUDIBLE BEST BOOK OF 2024 A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place. "Writing this memoir is a betrayal...
Landbridge : [life in fragments]
Troeung, Y-Dang
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Shortlisted for the Jum Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes * A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year * One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction Books of the Year * The inaugural title from Alchemy by Knopf Canada: A searing account by an exquisite writer who came to...
My road from Damascus : a memoir
Saeed, Jamal
Paper Book
Saeed chronicles modern Syria from the 50s up to his escape to Canada in 2016, recounting its descent from a country of potential to a pawn of cynical and corrupt powers. It paints a picture of village life, his rebellion as a young Marxist and evolution into a free thinker, living in hiding as a...
Sunshine nails : a novel
Nguyen, Mai
Paper Book
A Real Simple Must-Read Book of Summer 2023 "Mai Nguyen has proven herself to be a real standout." --Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author A tender, humorous, and page-turning debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will do...
We measure the earth with our bodies : a novel
Lama, Tsering Yangzom
Paper Book
A New York Times Book Review Summer Read Pick * A Washington Post Noteworthy Book of the Month * One of Booklist's Top 10 Historical Fiction Debuts * One of Publishers Weekly's Writers to Watch * Named a Most Anticipated Book by The Millions,...
What strange paradise
El Akkad, Omar
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD NATIONAL BESTSELLER   From the widely acclaimed author of American War: a new novel--beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving--that...

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