Book reviews and excerpts from books that explore the immigrant or expatriate experience.
Immigrants & Expats
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My Friends: A Novel
by Hisham Matar
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
A luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Booker Prize–nominated and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return
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Martyr!: A Novel
by Kaveh Akbar
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Dec 2024
A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. ...
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Rental House: A Novel
by Weike Wang
Hardcover: Dec 2024
From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations.
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Absolution: A Novel
by Alice McDermott
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.
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Roman Year: A Memoir
by Andre Aciman
Hardcover: Oct 2024
The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.
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The Rest of You
by Maame Blue
Paperback: Oct 2024
An internationally award-winning writer makes her triumphant American debut in this emotionally powerful story—a potent blend of Queenie and The Vanishing Half—about a woman's journey to uncover a foundational family secret from the ...
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Suggested in the Stars
by Yoko Tawada
Paperback: Oct 2024
On the heels of Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada's new and irresistible Suggested in the Stars carries on her band of friends' astonishing and intrepid adventures.
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The House of Doors
by Tan Twan Eng
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption.
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King of the Armadillos
by Wendy Chin-Tanner
Hardcover: Jul 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and a historical leprosarium in Louisiana, following one young man's quest to not only survive, but live a full and vibrant life
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Everything We Never Had
by Randy Ribay
Hardcover: Aug 2024
From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships.
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
by Tahir Hamut Izgil
Hardcover: Aug 2023
Paperback: Aug 2024
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide
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Someone Like Us: A Novel
by Dinaw Mengestu
Hardcover: Jul 2024
The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home.
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