An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impact The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a...
Immigrants
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Auteur:Lee, ErikaSommaire: - Auteur:Alzayat, DimaSommaire:
The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection, Alligator and Other Stories, are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman preforming burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or the great-aunt struggling...
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Auteur:Off, CarolSommaire:Tells the story of a family's desperate attempts to escape Afghan warlords, Taliban oppression, and the persecutions of refugee life, in hopes that both their sons and their daughters could dare to dream of peace and opportunity. And...
- Auteur:Friedman, KathySommaire:
Twelve exquisitely written stories depicting the search for human connection and the attempt to fit in far from home. All the Shining People explores migration, diaspora, and belonging within Toronto’s Jewish South African community, as...
- Auteur:Leavitt, SarahSommaire:
Agnes, Murderess is a graphic novel about the bloody folk legend of Agnes McVee, a roadhouse owner, madam, and serial killer in the Cariboo region of British Columbia during the gold rush.
- Auteur:Edizel, LorenSommaire:
John arrives in a Montreal airport with a suitcase in hand. We do not know where he is from, or who he is. The novel sets out to explore his identity by following his daily movements and intimate thoughts, as well as his connections to...
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Auteur:Hébert, AnneSommaire:This magnificent and final novel from Anne Hebert completes an internationally acclaimed literary oeuvre that is fearless in its explorations of the dark and violent side of human passion. Rose-Alba Almevida, her husband Pedro, and her...
- Auteur:Snelling, LauraineSommaire:
In 1910 Minnesota, Nilda Carlson's dreams are coming true. Though her first few months in America were difficult, her life now resembles the images that filled her daydreams in Norway. She and her younger brother Ivar live in their...
- Auteur:Mills, SeanSommaire:
What is the relationship between migration and politics in Quebec? How did French Canadians' activities in Haiti influence Quebec society? How did Haitian migrants shape debates about language, class, nationalism and sexuality? Breaks...
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Auteur:Mirza, Fatima FarheenSommaire:Vanity Fair: "Ultimate Summer Fiction" Good Morning, America: "Best Books To Bring To the Beach This Summer" Glamour.com: "The 17 Best Books to Read This Summer" Refinery29: "Brilliant Books To Bring...
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Auteur:Yalfani, MehriSommaire:A Palace in Paradise is a novel about the complex Iranian refugee and immigrant community in Toronto and the way in which one woman's death changes the lives of many others. The people in this community are connected by family ties...
- Auteur:Jin, HaSommaire:
Meet the Wu family—father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao. They are arranging to fully sever ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, and to begin a new, free life in the United States. At first,...
- Auteur:Hadero, MeronSommaire:
Set across the United States and abroad, these award-winning stories feature immigrants, refugees, and those on the brink of dispossession, all struggling to begin again, all fighting to belong.
- Auteur:Phi, Bao.Sommaire:
As a young boy, Bao and his father awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. A...
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Auteur:Fagan, CarySommaire:Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book. With all the wonder of a small-scale The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay comes this moving and unforgettable novel about childhood...
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