Immigrant Stories: Fiction

Try these fictional stories of long journeys, culture clashes, resilience, and adaptation

Updated June 7, 2023
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Little Bee
Cleave, Chris.
Paper Book
We dont want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we dont want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. Once you have read it, youll want to tell everyone about it...
Well-behaved Indian women
Dave, Saumya
Paper Book
A Lilly's Library Book Club Pick! "A sparkling debut."--Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author  From a compelling new voice in women's fiction comes a mother-daughter story about three generations of women who struggle to define themselves as they...
What strange paradise
El Akkad, Omar
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR * From the widely acclaimed, bestselling author of American War--a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. "Told from...
Hella
Gerrold, David
Paper Book
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...
The map of salt and stars
Joukhadar, Jennifer Zeynab
Paper Book
This powerful 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 Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker's apprentice--"perfectly aligns with the cultural moment" (The...
Searching for Sylvie Lee : a novel
Kwok, Jean
Paper Book
This is the large print edition. A READ WITH JENNA * TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK  A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY New York Times * Time * Marie Claire * Elle * Buzzfeed * Huffington Post *...
Deep river : a novel
Marlantes, Karl
Paper Book
Karl Marlantes's debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytelling--the family epic--to craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinvention. ...
LaGuardia : a very modern story of immigration
Okorafor, Nnedi
Paper Book
Set in an alternative world where aliens have come to Earth and integrated with society, LaGuardia revolves around a pregnant Nigerian-American doctor, Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka who has just returned to NYC under mysterious conditions, who smuggles an illegal alien plant named 'Letme Live' through...
Snow hunters
Yoon, Paul.
Paper Book
It is 1954 and the story traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, who defects from his country at the end of the Korean War, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life on the coast of Brazil. Throughout his years there, four people slip in and out of his life: Kiyoshi, the Japanese...

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