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Try these fictional stories of long journeys, culture clashes, resilience, and adaptation
Updated June 5, 2023
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County)
Milwaukie Ledding Library
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Little Bee
Cleave, Chris.
Paper Book
Millions of people have read, discussed, debated, cried, and cheered with Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee girl whose violent and courageous journey puts a stunning face on the worldwide refugee crisis. "Little Bee will blow you away." --The Washington...
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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...
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World and town : a novel
Jen, Gish.
Paper Book
The award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon and The Resisters delivers "[a] triumph of a novel.... Jen reflects America, at its best, its worst, its most vulnerable" (The Miami Herald), and asks deep questions about religion, love, home, and meaning. ...
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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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Into the beautiful North : a novel
Urrea, Luis Alberto.
Paper Book
This powerful novel from a bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author tells the story of a young woman's journey--both emotionally and physically--as she travels north to America. Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her...
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