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Like Oprah's 105th Book Club pick, "Long Island," by Colm Tóibin, the books on this list remind us that immigrants get the job done!
Behold the Dreamers is a 2016 debut novel by Imbolo Mbue. [1] The novel details the experiences of two New York City families during the 2008 financial crisis: an immigrant family from Cameroon, the Jonga family, and their wealthy employers, the Edwards family.
Many immigrant novels fit this Bildungsroman pattern of tracing the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a youthful main character: The émigré group's inexperience in the new country and the young protagonist's viewpoint often dovetail neatly. Marshall's vivid, earthy prose thrillingly depicts the speech and singular folkways ...
Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories by Jewish/American writer Anzia Yezierska first published in 1920. The short stories deal with the European Jewish immigrant experience from the perspective of fictional female Jews, each story depicting a different aspect of their trials and tribulations in poverty in New York City at the turn of the 20th century.
Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was an American novelist born in Mały Płock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire.She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in the immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Howe's review of the book on the front page of The New York Times Book Review marked the first time a paperback review appeared on the front page. [4] [6] In 1991, the novel was praised in The New York Review of Books by literary critic, Alfred Kazin: "Call It Sleep is the most profound novel of Jewish life that I have ever read by an American ...
The novel follows the story of a young Jewish immigrant living in New York who wishes to marry a wealthy man and escape the bounds of her lower-class upbringing. [2] Yezierska drew inspiration for the novel from the lives of Rose Pastor Stokes and her husband J. G. Phelps Stokes, as well as her own relationship with John Dewey.
A Native of Beijing in New York, also known as Beijinger in New York (simplified Chinese: 北京人在纽约; traditional Chinese: 北京人在紐約; pinyin: Běijīngrén zài Niǔ Yuē), is a novel by Glen Cao (曹桂林), based on his own immigrant story. It was translated into English by Ted Wang (卡本特王).