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Arabian
Jazz
by Diana Abu-Jaber
Winner of the
Oregon Book Award, Abu-Jaber transplanted a Jordanian family
to upstate New York where they must adjust to their new
lives as Americans.
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Funny
in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
by Firoozeh Dumas
This lighthearted
memoir chronicles a Iranian family's moving to Southern
California and encountering culture shock.
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Desertion
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Booker-nominated Gurnah explores our basic human emotions
through several generations. This story of cross-cultural love
explores
the complexity of cross-cultural intermarriage, racism, while
provides the emergence of Africa's independence, and
a window into East African postcolonial culture.
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Typical
American
by Gish Jen
Three foreign
students in New York plan to achieve the American dream
while maintaining their Chinese values.
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The Dim Sum of All Things
by Kim Wong Keltner
Third-generation Chinese-American, Lindsay
Owyang, connects with her root when she accompany her grandmother
to
China. Wong Keltner takes a honest and comic look at life in
two cultures and being single-in-the-city.
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Interpreter
of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Winner of the
Nobel Prize, Lahiri's book of short stories is an absolute
must read. In her book, the characters navigate between
Indian traditions and modern society, while seeking love
beyond the barriers of culture and generations.
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The
Namesake: A Novel
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Lahiri enriches
the themes that made her collection an international bestseller:
the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts
of assimilation, and most poignantly, the tangled ties
between generations.
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The Rug Merchant
by Meg Mullins
Carpet salesman, Ushman Khan left Iran in order to make a
new start in America. As he assimilates into the Western world,
he meets Stella, a Barnard freshman.
With her, Ushman finds connection, along with his conflicting
feelings about women, sex, and American culture.
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My
Year of Meats
by Ruth L. Ozeki
When two ordinary
women, one documentary filmaker from America, the other
a housewife from Japan, are brought together by extraordinary
circumstances, tragedy and comedy ensues.
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The
Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations
on Not Fitting In
by Paisley
Rekdal
As the daughter
of a Chinese-American mother and a Norwegian father, Paisley
Rekdal grew up wondering where she fits in. Fresh, feisty,
and very funny.
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Joy
Luck Club
by Amy Tan
Amy Tan explores
the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and
their mothers, seeing them through grade school, divorce,
the birth of a new generation, and mah jong.
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