In the spirit of the community event on immigration this weekend, presented by the Congregational Church of Topsfield, we have curated a list of suggested readings on the immigrant experience in America.  We will have these books and more on display at the event on Saturday.

Fiction

• The Guardians by Ana Castillo
• America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavice

Non-fiction

• LatinoLand by Marie Arana
• Everyone Who is Gone is Here by Jonathan Blitzer
• How Does it Feel to be a Problem? by Moustafa Bayoumi
• Where the Wind Leads by Vinh Chung
• After the Last Border by Jessica Goudeau
• Once I was You by Maria Hinojosa
• Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftin
• The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham
• The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri
• Rivermouth by Alejandra Oliva
• The Newcomers by Helen Thorpe
• Our Migrant Souls by Héctor Tobar
• El Paso by Jazmine Ulloa
• Dear America by Jose Antonio Vargas
• Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
• Solito by Javier Zamora