Category: Immigration

April 30, 2010

What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave Eggers **** (of 4)

It’s hard to comprehend how anyone survives what Valentino had to in escaping Arab militiamen in southern Sudan and comes away only with excrutiating headaches....

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April 30, 2010

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri *** (of 4)

Compelling in the way of an auto crash. I could not look away, but I definitely felt worse for having partaken. Like her Interpreter of Maladies,...

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April 29, 2010

Small Island by Andrea Levy **** (of 4)

There’s a reason this book won the Whitbread Award for best book of the year, one of Britain’s most prestigious literary awards. It captures the...

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April 29, 2010

Netherland by Joseph O’Neill ** (of 4)

A young, wealthy, Dutch bank analyst moves to New York City with his British wife. Soon after the World Trade Center is destroyed, his wife...

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April 29, 2010

Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis. **** (of 4)

This short collection of short stories is a wonderful piece of honey cake with a glass of tea. A Jewish Russian immigrant to Toronto describes...

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April 29, 2010

Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam **** of 4

Islamic Pakistani immigrants struggle with isolation from their homeland and one another. Aslam’s writing is so replete with metaphor and cultural insight that every page...

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April 29, 2010

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri **** (of 4)

Remarkable short stories. Each one feels like a complete novel of Indian immigrants making their way in the new world.

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April 23, 2010

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat **** (of 4)

Danticat impeccably captures the voices and inner thoughts of Haitian peasants, and first and second generation Haitian immigrants to New York and Florida. Violence lingers...

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April 23, 2010

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz **** (of 4)

What a masterful, entertaining (if one can use such a word for such despicable deeds), and unique way of telling the story of Trujillo’s dictatorial...

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