The Immigrant Experience Through Literature: Biography and Memoir
Annotation:The granddaughter of Jewish immigrants, who fled the Nazis, describes her journey from Chile to Georgia.
Annotation:The daughter of Mexican immigrants recounts her family's struggle to stay together.
Annotation:Twenty-three women from a variety of countries describe their experiences.
Annotation:A Colombian street kid manages to bring his family to the US.
Annotation:The tragic life of an Armenian immigrant who won fame as an expressionistic painter.
Annotation:Recollections of the times the author spent with his Lithuanian grandmother.
Annotation:The author's family and friends immigrate to Galveston, Texas.
Annotation:A Russian immigrant's search for a place to settle his family and find his fortune.
Annotation:Born in Culiacán, México, the dancer is reborn in Doris Humphrey's studio.
Annotation:A combination of history and memoir by an African American journalist.
Annotation:Essays by five outstanding authors on the experience of exile.
Annotation:The author connects with the past by recounting memories and preserving recipes.
Annotation:The author, now an American citizen, reflects on his Palestinian childhood.
Annotation:A young Chinese woman struggles to shape her identity.
Annotation:A Mexican American journalist explores his family's history.
Annotation:In beautifully written essays, Mori examines the ways in which truth is circumvented in America and in her native Japan.
Annotation:Oral recollections of the author's Irish mother, who immigrated to Chicago in 1935.
Annotation:Boza describes her unhappy childhood within a Cuban exile family in Miami.
Annotation:Reminiscence of an Irish boyhood on Manhattan's East Side soon after World War II.
Annotation:A poverty-stricken, uneducated Irish immigrant becomes a New York schoolteacher. Sequel to Angela's Ashes.
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The extraordinary ethnic diversity of the United States is due to the vast numbers of immigrants who have settled here. Many Americans today grew up listening to stories from their parents or grandparents about what it was like to come to a new country and struggle to build a life for themselves and their families. In relocating from one country to another, newcomers have had to find a way to make a living, in addition to adjusting to an unfamiliar culture and often a new language. Through expressive novels, short stories, poetry, plays, biographies and memoirs that have been recently published, the books on this list describe the immigrant experience by those who have lived it.
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