The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America
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From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of white supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by Zadie Smith as "lively and vital," editors Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman hand the microphone to an incredible range of writers whose humanity and right to be here is under attack.
These writers, and the many others in this urgent collection, share powerful personal stories of living between cultures and languages while struggling to figure out who they are and where they belong.
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Nikesh Shukla. (2019). The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America. Little, Brown and Company.
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Nikesh Shukla is a British writer and diversity activist who conceived and edited The Good Immigrant, the acclaimed collection of essays about race and immigration by 21 writers of color. He is the editor of Rife Magazine, an online magazine for young people, and the author of the novels Coconut Unlimited, which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, and Meatspace. He has also been shortlisted for the Liberty Human Rights Arts Award and named as one of Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers 2016. His third novel The One Who Wrote Destiny and his first YA novel will be published in 2018.
Chimene Suleyman is a writer from London who is now based in New York. As well as contributing to The Good Immigrant she has written on race-politics for The Independent, International Business Times, The Debrief, The Pool, and Media Diversified. TV and radio appearances include BBC Newsnight, BBC, and LBC. Her poetry collection, Outside Looking On, was included in the Guardian's Best Books of 2014 list.
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- By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of modern America (The Washington Post).
From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of white supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by Zadie Smith as "lively and vital," editors Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman hand the microphone to an incredible range of writers whose humanity and right to be here is under attack.- Chigozie Obioma unpacks an Igbo proverb that helped him navigate his journey to America from Nigeria.
- Jenny Zhang analyzes cultural appropriation in 90s fashion, recalling her own pain and confusion as a teenager trying to fit in.
- Fatimah Asghar describes the flood of memory and emotion triggered by an encounter with an Uber driver from Kashmir.
- Alexander Chee writes of a visit to Korea that changed his relationship to his heritage.
These writers, and the many others in this urgent collection, share powerful personal stories of living between cultures and languages while struggling to figure out who they are and where they belong. - reviews
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December 15, 2018
Immigrants offer affecting personal essays about adapting to daily life in the United States while also retaining their identities forged by foreign cultures.In 2015, editors Shukla (The One Who Wrote Destiny, 2018, etc.) and Suleyman (Outside Looking On, 2014) published a similar book in the U.K. Suleyman has since relocated to New York City and taken charge of this current collection, the title of which plays on the toxic assumption that all immigrants should be perceived as "bad" until they demonstrate otherwise. The editors do not explain how they decided on the order of the essays, but many readers will agree that the first, Porochista Khakpour's "How to Write Iranian-America, or the Last Essay," qualifies as both the most inventively written and most memorable. Besides Iran, the other nations in the anthology are spread across the world, from Africa to Asia to Europe to Latin America. The contributors also explore topics around the generalized immigration experiences of both Muslims and Jews. Because some of the essays are ripped from the headlines, Donald Trump's xenophobia and immigration-related presidential policies figure in, as well. In fact, the fear spawned by the hatred of Trump and the Republican Party is palpable throughout. In that context, "Return to Macondo," by Puerto Rican writer Susanne Ramírez de Arellano, offers the especially poignant--and angry--perspective of a marginalized woman who "never bought the American Dream. It was a visceral reaction. This dream always had the rank smell of bullshit to me. I didn't believe it, no matter what new toothpaste or amazing trip to the moon they were selling." The author biographies at the back of the book will help readers find talented immigrant authors previously unknown to them; some of the more well-known contributors include Khakpour, Alexander Chee, Daniel José Elder, Teju Cole, and Nicole Dennis-Benn.As in nearly all collections, the quality varies, but there are no weak links in this well-curated book.COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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In this follow-up to a 2016 UK publication, original editor Shukla (the Costa short-listed Coconut Unlimited) and Brooklyn-based poet/journalist Suleyman include 21 essays on the American situation from writers such as Jenny Zhang, Teju Cole, Chigozie Obioma, and Alexander Chee.
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The U.S. immigrant experience is profiled in 12 eye-opening essays in this collection edited by novelist Shukla (The One Who Wrote Destiny) and poet Suleyman (Outside Looking On). Representing a range of ethnicities, such as Nigerian, Puerto Rican, and Jamaican, the contributors all tell stories that are unique to their own truths. If there is a similarity among them, it's that they are residents of a country divided by extreme political beliefs; navigating this landscape is at the heart of each essay. A companion volume to the UK collection of the same name, this U.S. edition is most powerful when describing the conflicting feelings of living in a free, democratic nation while still labeled an "outsider." For example, Nicole Dennis-Benn details her journey from Jamaica to Long Island, NY, to a writing career, all while exceeding (or bucking) expectations. "Return to Macondo" is Susanne Ramirez de Arellano's look at Puerto Rico as a U.S. territory not always seen as American, but as a place still haunted by its colonial past. VERDICT These insightful essays from well-known and upcoming writers will appeal to both adult and young adult readers.--Leah Huey, Dekalb P.L., IL
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Immigrants offer affecting personal essays about adapting to daily life in the United States while also retaining their identities forged by foreign cultures.In 2015, editors Shukla (The One Who Wrote Destiny, 2018, etc.) and Suleyman (Outside Looking On, 2014) published a similar book in the U.K. Suleyman has since relocated to New York City and taken charge of this current collection, the title of which plays on the toxic assumption that all immigrants should be perceived as "bad" until they demonstrate otherwise. The editors do not explain how they decided on the order of the essays, but many readers will agree that the first, Porochista Khakpour's "How to Write Iranian-America, or the Last Essay," qualifies as both the most inventively written and most memorable. Besides Iran, the other nations in the anthology are spread across the world, from Africa to Asia to Europe to Latin America. The contributors also explore topics around the generalized immigration experiences of both Muslims and Jews. Because some of the essays are ripped from the headlines, Donald Trump's xenophobia and immigration-related presidential policies figure in, as well. In fact, the fear spawned by the hatred of Trump and the Republican Party is palpable throughout. In that context, "Return to Macondo," by Puerto Rican writer Susanne Ram�rez de Arellano, offers the especially poignant--and angry--perspective of a marginalized woman who "never bought the American Dream. It was a visceral reaction. This dream always had the rank smell of bullshit to me. I didn't believe it, no matter what new toothpaste or amazing trip to the moon they were selling." The author biographies at the back of the book will help readers find talented immigrant authors previously unknown to them; some of the more well-known contributors include Khakpour, Alexander Chee, Daniel Jos� Elder, Teju Cole, and Nicole Dennis-Benn.As in nearly all collections, the quality varies, but there are no weak links in this well-curated book.COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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