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The good immigrant : 26 writers reflect on America

Call Number

  • 305.8 G6464 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

Physical Description

xii, 324 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

Presents essays by first- and second-generation immigrant writers on the realities of immigration, multiculturalism, and marginalization in an increasingly divided America.

Contents

  • How to write Iranian-America, or the last essay / Swimmer / Sidra (in 12 movements) / On the blackness of the panther / How not to be / After migration: the once and future kings / On loneliness / Chooey-Booey and brown / Luck of the Irish / Her name was India / Shithole nation / Blond girls in Cheongsams / The naked man / Your father's country / The long answer / An American, told / On being Kim Kardashian / Tour Diary / Dispatches from the language wars / Juana Azurduy versus Christopher Columbus / No es suficiente / Skittles / Return to Macondo / 244 Million / How to center your own story / Jade Chang.

Genres

Essays.

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