Well-Read Episode 102 - Immigrant and Refugee Stories

We’re exploring fiction that depicts the immigrant and refugee experience, and we’ll end with what we’re reading this week.

 

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Ann’s picks:

• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (buy from Bookshop)
• Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (buy from Bookshop)
  – Titanic (film)
  – Ruta Sepetys books
• The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (buy from Bookshop)
  – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (buy from Bookshop)
  – Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (buy from Bookshop)

Halle’s picks:

• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (buy from Bookshop)
  – Exit West (film)
• The Other Americans by Laila Lalami (buy from Bookshop)
  – Liz Moore books
  – Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (buy from Bookshop)
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez (buy from Bookshop)
  – Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (buy from Bookshop)

What We’re Reading This Week:

• Ann: The Art of Escapism Cooking: A Survival Story, with Intensely Good Flavors by Mandy Lee (buy from Bookshop)
  – Mandy Lee’s Flattening the Bird
  – Lady and Pups (blog)
  – @ladyandpups
• Halle: The Verifiers by Jane Pek (buy from Bookshop)
  – Book of the Month

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