Immigration Archives - Page 15 of 42

Music of the Ghosts by Vaddey Ratner [in Library Journal]

06 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Cambodian, Cambodian American, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

After nearly a quarter-century spent in Minnesota, Teera returns to her native Cambodia, fulfilling her aunt's dying wish that part of her ashes be delivered home. Having witnessed, decades earlier, the decimation of the rest of her family, Teera is now completely alone. She seeks the...

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid [in Library Journal]

02 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Pakistani, Pakistani American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

*STARRED REVIEW "We are all migrants through time," observes Man Booker Prize short-lister Mohsin Hamid (The Reluctant Fundamentalist). The impulses driving such movement, especially when rooted in violent conflict, is at the core of Hamid's exceptional fourth novel. In an unnamed city (not unlike the author's native...

Mamá the Alien | Mamá la extraterrestre by René Colata Laínez, illustrated by Laura Lacámara

25 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Cuban American, Fiction, Latina/o/x

When Sofia’s bouncing ball knocks over her mother’s purse, what spills out is more than just the usual keys and wallet – she finds proof that her mother is a registered ALIEN, “¡una extraterrestre!” She’s even more surprised when her mother confirms that the card...

The Mortifications by Derek Palacio [in Library Journal]

21 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Cuban, Cuban American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW A mother, Soledad, flees Cuba, abandoning her revolutionary husband Uxmal and absconding with their 12-year-old twins Ulises and Isabel. She bypasses Miami for Hartford, CT, finding work as a court stenographer, making her the transcriber of other people's words. Although Uxmal’s presence never seems to...

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee [in Booklist]

19 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Korean, Korean American, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW A decade after her international best-selling debut, Free Food for Millionaires (2007), Min Jin Lee’s follow-up is an exquisite, haunting epic that crosses almost a century, four generations, and three countries while depicting an ethnic Korean family that cannot even claim a single shared...

The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen [in Library Journal]

12 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American

*STARRED REVIEW Although publishing 10 months after Viet Thanh Nguyen won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer, this collection precedes his novel by decades (the earliest entry dates from 1997). In a pre-Pulitzer interview, Nguyen credits his 15-year experience "characterized by drudgery and despair, laced with...

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See [in Booklist]

02 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

In a remote mountain village, the survival of an Akha tribe, one of China’s 55 ethnic minorities, depends on tea. Rigid traditions prohibit Li-yan from keeping her newborn. She saves her daughter by leaving her in a nearby town, wrapped in blankets with a tea...

Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofsky [in Booklist]

02 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

Tokyo-born, Berlin-domiciled Yoko Tawada (Facing the Bridge, 2007) returns with another fantastical and entertaining novel that combines a broken family saga, socio-political-environmental enlightenment, a treatise on writing, and bitingly well-placed satire. Seamlessly translated from German by the award-winning Susan Bernofsky, Memoirs of a Polar Bear introduces...

Author Interview: Vanessa Hua [in Bloom]

25 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories

On Secrets and the Long, Long Process Journalist Vanessa Hua spent the last couple of decades filing articles from around the globe – China and Ecuador, Burma and Panama, and beyond – which surely gave her the worldly familiarity that resonates throughout her fiction debut, Deceit...

A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi [in Library Journal]

17 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Afghan, Afghan American, Audio, Fiction, Repost

Accused of brutally murdering her husband, Zeba lands in jail. A mother of four, wife to Kamal, and obedient to Kamal's family, Zeba can't remember what happened. She remains silently resigned, realizing that in contemporary Afghanistan, just being a woman is enough to threaten not...

This Is Me: A Story of Who We Are & Where We Came From by Jamie Lee Curtis, illustrated by Laura Cornell

06 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Happy Back-to-School across these wide United States of America with this timely reminder that we are a nation of immigrants with histories and stories from somewhere else. Given some of the hot topics looming this election year, all parents, teachers, schools, libraries would do well to order...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng’s Two White Rabbits

26 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latin American, Latina/o/x, Translation, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016

Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom [in Library Journal]

25 Aug, by SIBookDragon in African, Audio, Black/African American, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

At 4, Mawi Asgedom fled the civil war cleaving Eritrea and Ethiopia, spending three years in a Sudanese refugee camp. In 1983, assisted by World Relief, the family settled in a Chicago suburb. Their new life wasn't easy: Asgedom's father, once a respected community leader and...

Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens [in Library Journal]

24 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Caribbean American, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW In a Manhattan hospital, two women are each pregnant – one obviously, the other not yet visibly. Lore arrives with no partner, no friends, and no support, but she is armed with a several-page birth plan with which she expects to control the...

The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda [in Library Journal]

22 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

In a tiny Indian village, Anil and Leena are constant childhood companions in spite of their vastly different backgrounds. Anil, a member of the farming community's most important family, is destined for a prestigious medical residency in Dallas. Leena, the only daughter of a modest...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi

10 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Arab, Arab American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Nonfiction, Palestinian, Palestinian American, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016, Young Adult Readers

Deceit and Other Possibilities by Vanessa Hua [in Booklist]

08 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories

Journalist Vanessa Hua’s debut in fiction is an intriguing collection of 10 stories with personal resonance from being the child of Chinese immigrants and a two-decade, continent-hopping career. Each of her protagonists is never quite grounded, caught between multiple cultures and countries. Each hides beneath layers...

The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin [in Library Journal]

01 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW When Fen Danlin first landed in New York to join his wife, Yan Haili, she delivered him to a "seedy" Chinatown inn with $500 and instructions to stay – alone – within walking distance of an arranged restaurant job. She returned the next day...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Erin Entrada Kelly’s The Land of Forgotten Girls

20 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Filipina/o American, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016

The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies [in Booklist]

11 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hong Kongese, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW British-born of Welsh and Chinese parentage, Peter Ho Davies (The Welsh Girl, 2007) has lived stateside since 1992, but this is his first U.S.-set title. In it he explores the history of his adopted home in four sections. In “Gold,” he links the completion of...

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