🏷️ Immigration
12 entries tagged with this trope
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi · 2020
Neuroscientist Gifty studies reward-seeking behavior in mice while reflecting on her family's immigration from Ghana and her brother's opioid addiction. Science meets spirituality.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family living in Japan face discrimination and hardship. An epic saga of love, family, and the search for belonging.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. Discrimination, love, sacrifice, and the pachinko machines that symbolize a rigged game they keep playing. Epic in every sense.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. Begins in 1911 with a forbidden pregnancy and spans nearly a century. The Apple TV adaptation barely scratches the surface.
The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak · 2021
A Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot fall in love as their island splits apart. Part of the story is narrated by a fig tree. Yes, really. And it works beautifully.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. From a forbidden pregnancy in 1910s Korea to the pachinko parlors of 1980s Osaka. Epic, devastating, and impossibly human.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. From a forbidden pregnancy in 1911 to the bright lights of 1989 Tokyo. Every page feels like holding someone's entire life in your hands.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. Quietly devastating.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. From a fishing village to postwar Osaka. History is the characters. The opening line: 'History has failed us, but no matter.'
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. Beginning in 1910 and sweeping across the century. This book will break your heart and put it back differently.
A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende · 2019
Two strangers flee the Spanish Civil War and marry out of necessity. Decades later, their marriage of survival becomes something more. Allende at her most sweeping.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong · 2019
A letter from a son to an illiterate mother. Ocean Vuong writes prose that reads like concentrated poetry. About Vietnam, addiction, queerness, and survival.