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by Maisie Card
Fiction
Set in the U.S., the U.K. and the Caribbean, this dazzling debut incorporates elements of gothic fiction and Jamaican folklore to explore the immigrant experience, as told through the story of a man who leaves behind his true identity in Kingston.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
Audiobook: Libby/OverDrive
by NoViolet Bulawayo
Fiction Nonfiction
An exciting literary debut: the unflinching and powerful story of a young girl’s journey out of Zimbabwe and to America.
Book: BCCLS
Audiobook: Libby/OverDrive, hoopla
by Imbolo Mbue
Fiction
A Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for a senior financial executive, but he soon discovers that the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
Audiobook: Libby/OverDrive
by Min Jin Lee
Fiction
A sweeping saga of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, facing enduring questions of faith, family, and identity.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
Audiobook: Libby/OverDrive
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fiction
Two gifted teens in love are parted when they flee the military dictatorship of Nigeria, one to England and one to America; their reunion comes 15 years later.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
Audiobook: Libby/OverDrive, hoopla
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Nonfiction
Brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong in May 2001, when 26 men tried to cross the Mexican border into the southern Arizona desert and only twelve emerged.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
by Colm Tóibín
Fiction
The gentle, poignant, gorgeously written tale of a girl from Ireland who finds a home, her true self and a chance at love in 1950s Brooklyn.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
Audiobook: Libby/OverDrive
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Fiction
The Pulitzer-winning novel about a Communist South Vietnamese mole who emigrates to America after the fall of Saigon while continuing to serve as a double agent.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
Audiobook: hoopla
by Maxine Hong Kingston
Nonfiction
In this classic memoir, a Chinese American writer tells of the traditional Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.
Book: BCCLS
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Fiction
A Jewish refugee and World War II in New York City juggles three wives; the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; his beautiful and neurotic true love; and his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead.
Book: BCCLS
by Mohsin Hamid
Fiction
A beautiful book, laced with magical realism, about a refugee couple from an unnamed Muslim country who travel the world through a series of doors that lead them from one country to another.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
Audiobook: Libby/OverDrive
by Cristina García
Fiction
Here is the dreamy, bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban revolution, presenting a unique vision and a haunting lamentation for a past that might have been
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
