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4.31 AVERAGE
4.31 AVERAGE
If there is a list of "Books Every White American Should Read," this should be on it. There is a lot of nuance that's absent from the mainstream immigration conversation, and an anthology like this highlights that, in these essays on wide-ranging immigrant experiences. It should be common sense that a Mexican immigrant doesn't face the same challenges or treatment as, say, an Indian immigrant, and that comes through very clearly in these writers' stories. I also appreciate many of these essays speaking to the first-gen experience, as that is also a very specific group of people that deals with very specific identity challenges and isolation.
Many writers I love are in this book, and it's honestly a little heartwarming reading not only their stories of struggle, but their stories of success as creatives, despite the deck being stacked against them.
Many writers I love are in this book, and it's honestly a little heartwarming reading not only their stories of struggle, but their stories of success as creatives, despite the deck being stacked against them.
Beautiful stories!! Each one is so raw, different, and excellently written. My personal favorite was “How Not To Be” and “The Blackness of the Panther”.
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fast-paced
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
hopeful
informative
inspiring
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tense
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
profound and intellectually stimulating
I just felt like reading the essays I liked, so I didn't read all of them
informative
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
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as an immigrant, some of the stories really made me feel seen. others were really informative.
informative
reflective
slow-paced