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Language
English
Description
A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding two sisters and their mother in a Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother -- and vanishes. Amy is too young to remember a time when her...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 299 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Franz Kafka's diaries and letters suggest that his fascination with America grew out of a desire to break away from his native Prague, even if only in his imagination. Kafka died before he could finish what he liked to call his ''American novel, " but he clearly entitled it Der Verschollene ("The Missing Person") in a letter to his fiancee, Felice Bauer, in 1912. Kafka began writing the novel that fall and wrote the last completed chapter in 1914,...
64) The latecomers
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1908, sixteen-year-old Bridey runs away from her small town in Ireland with her sweetheart Thom. But Thom dies of ship fever, leaving Bridey alone and pregnant in a strange new world. The Latecomers spans a century of American life and reminds us that we can never truly leave the past behind.
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xix, 236 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From lonely immigrants struggling to forge a new American identity to a high school custodian who penned a New Yorker short story... Invisible People collects the best of Tizon's rich, empathetic accounts... Mining his Filipino American background, Tizon tells the stories of immigrants from Cambodia and Laos. He gives an account of the Beltway sniper and insightful profiles of Surfers for Jesus and a man who tracks UFOs."--Dust jacket flap.
67) In the distance
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Publisher
Coffee House Press
Language
English
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Description
"A young Swedish boy finds himself penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great push to the West. Driven back over and over again on his journey through vast expanses, Håkan meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre (travel narratives, the bildungsroman,...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Newly divorced, Iris Prince moves to a new neighborhood where she, a proud second-generation Mexican American, is plunged into a climate of fear and hate-fueled violence after the launch of a mandatory identification wristband, forcing her to confront how far she'll go to protect what matters to her most" --
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother...
71) An Italian wife
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English
Description
In turn-of-the-century Italy, fourteen-year-old Josephine, sheltered and naïve, is forced into an arranged marriage to a man she doesn't know or love who is about to depart for America, where she later joins him. Bound by tradition, Josephine gives birth to seven children. The last, Valentina, is conceived in passion, born in secret, and given up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for her lost child, keeping her secret...
72) Light for all
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Language
English
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Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text tell of travelers who have left their homelands to bring their talents, hopes, and determination to a land where Liberty's light shines for all.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A book you won't be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she has an arranged marriage (and children) and the fiery political activist she lusts after. A novel that's multi-continental, richly detailed and elegantly crafted." —Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Sisterland
After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London,...
After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rose is a Korean American sex worker who has agreed to spy on an architect's utopian building project in the far north of Canada in exchange for safe housing for herself and her climate-displaced mother. She arrives at Camp Zero at the same time as Grant, an Ivy League-educated professor out of his depth in this land of extreme cold and brutality. It soon becomes clear to both of them that their time at the camp is not going to provide an easy path...
78) Death rattle
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Carmen Vega's boyfriend tries to kill her, she hands over all her savings to a smuggler and sets out from Tijuana in a small, leaky boat. Within sight of the California coast, the boat starts to sink, and its passengers have to be rescued by border patrol. Soon, Carmen turns up dead in a privately-operated Migrant Detention Center. Neither Nick Finn, the officer who saved Carmen from drowning, or his wife, human-rights lawyer Mona Jimenez, are...
79) The gnome's eye
Author
Publisher
Orca Book
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Theresa and her family immigrate to Canada after World War II, she confronts her many fears with the help of a talisman given to her by a friend in Austria.
Author
Language
English
Description
"On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China--to her,...
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