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by Boris Fishman
Published Feb 2020
Read ReviewsThe acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told, recipe-filled memoir. A family story, an immigrant story, a love story, and an epic meal, Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle.
by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Published Mar 2019
Read ReviewsThe first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity and belonging.
by Imbolo Mbue
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsOprah Winfrey's Summer 2017 Book Club Pick
In the vein of Amy Tan and Khaled Hosseini comes a compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream - the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy.
by Alex George
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsAn uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we call home.
by Sefi Atta
Published Dec 2012
Read ReviewsA new novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.
by John Colman Wood
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsSet in a windswept wilderness menaced by hyenas and lions, anthropologist John Colman Wood's debut novel is an exquisite, haunting exploration of the meaning of love and the rituals of grief.
by Gary Shteyngart
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsA hilarious and heartfelt new novel, a deliciously dark tale of Americas dysfunctional coming yearsand the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.
by Abraham Verghese
Published Jan 2010
Read ReviewsVoted Best Debut Author of 2009 by BookBrowse Subscribers
An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others set in 1960s & 1970s Ethiopia and 1980s America.
by Ha Jin
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsA moving, realistic, but always hopeful narrative novel of the Wu family - father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao - as they fully sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and begin a new, free life in the United States.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsThings have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuk - the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations.
by Mohsin Hamid
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsChangez is at the top of his class at Princeton, and is snapped up by the elite "valuation" firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his infatuation with elegant, beautiful Erica. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica ...
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