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Well-Read Episode 102 - Immigrant and Refugee Stories


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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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