An immigrant who battles everything from parental expectations to cultural stereotypes, Liu is determined to carve out a path for himself that leads him to not only succeed as an actor but also to opening the door to reconciling with...
Children of immigrants
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Author:Liu, SimuSummary: - Author:Wallace, IanSummary:
Vincenzo has a huge problem. He wants to be just like his friends, but he is also quite proud of his Italian heritage. The crisis revolves around a "stinky meat sandwich." Cultural differences between an Italian immigrant...
- Author:Lahiri, JhumpaSummary:
The namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in...
- Author:Desai, SaraSummary:
A high stakes wager pits an aspiring entrepreneur against a ruthless CEO in this sexy romantic comedy. After her life falls apart, recruitment consultant Layla Patel returns home to her family in San Francisco. But in the eyes of her...
- Author:Shaw, Jennifer E.Summary:
To meet demand in Canada, more and more women are migrating from the Philippines to become domestic workers. What happens to family left behind? Tender Labour investigates the experiences of young people as they navigate precarity in...
- Author:Guerra, Eve.Summary:
Annabella Morelli, vingt-trois ans, habite dans le Vieux Lyon, loin du Congo-Brazzaville où elle est née. Elle est étudiante, amoureuse et se rêve poétesse. Ses parents : un ouvrier franco-italien exilé en Afrique ; une villageoise...
- Author:Luo, SusieSummary:
Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States to...
- Author:Ali, KazimSummary:
Ali's lyrical, hypnotic storytelling takes us on an unlikely journey to a place that only now exists in his childhood memories: a remote industrial community in the boreal forest of Northern Canada. I was mesmerized by the voice of...
- Author:Zeniter, AliceSummary:
L'Algérie dont est originaire sa famille n'a longtemps été pour Naïma qu'une toile de fond sans grand intérêt. Pourtant, dans une société française traversée par les questions identitaires, tout semble vouloir...
- Author:McGugan, JimSummary:
The time is 1900, in the midst of the great waves of European immigration to North America. Standing in the dust and wind of the prairie, a young boy prepares to say good-bye to Josepha, his older classmate, who is leaving the...
- Author:Deen, NatashaSummary:
A contemporary, coming-of-age story, written by an #OwnVoices author, about a Guyanese girl who must find the balance between her parents' "old world" expectations and traditions while pursuing her dream of being a great...
- Author:Mengestu, DinawSummary:
Leaving behind his marriage and job in New York, Jonas, the son of Ethiopian immigrants, sets out to retrace his mother and father's trip and weave together a family history that will take him from the war-torn Ethiopia of his...
- Author:Elhillo, SafiaSummary:
Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to belong somewhere else. At...
- Author:Ali, WajahatSummary:
A rollercoaster ride of a memoir, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, by the journalist, playwright, and political activist Wajahat Ali. "Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!" This is just one of the many warm,...
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Author:Lee, Min JinSummary:Casey Han's four years as Princeton gave her many things except a job and some bad habits. After graduation, Casey sees the reality of having expensive habits without the mans to sustain them. As she navigates Manhattan, we see her life...
- Author:Pepper, KaijaSummary:
Falling into Flight untangles a daughter's complicated relationship with immigrant parents -- her angry Russian mother and quiet Finnish father. And it offers insight into a life experienced through the arts: first as a young...
- Author:Chin, CurtisSummary:
This “vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt” memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers). Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live...
- Author:Diome, FatouSummary:
Arame et Bougna, mères de Lamine et Issa, clandestins partis pour l'Europe, ne comptaient plus leurs printemps; chacune était la sentinelle vouée et dévouée à la sauvegarde des siens, le pilier qui tenait la demeure sur les...
- Author:Mafi, TaherehSummary:
In this searing look into the world of a Muslim family in the wake of 9/11, a child of immigrants forges a blurry identity, falls in love, and finds hope, all in the midst of a modern war.
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Author:Rum, EtafSummary:Three generations of Palestinian American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue, courage, and betrayal that will resonate with...
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