Brother I'm Dying

by Edwidge Danticat

What America does to people at its borders.

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Danticat's uncle — a pastor in Haiti — fled to the US after political violence in 2004 and died in immigration detention in Miami, aged 81, four days after arriving. Her father was dying of pulmonary fibrosis at the same time. She was pregnant. This memoir holds all of it simultaneously — the history of Haiti and the US, two brothers' lives, what it means to be Haitian in America, what America does at its borders to the people it claims to welcome. The most personal dispatch on this shelf and the most enraging.

Same pattern, different era

Different time, different place. The same thing keeps happening.

A Different Mirror

Ronald Takaki

American history. All of it. Everyone who lived it.

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Children of the Land

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Mexico

He grew up undocumented. His parents were deported. He stayed.

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Illegally Yours

Rafael Agustin

He didn't know he was undocumented. Until the driver's license.

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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?

Moustafa Bayoumi

Seven people. Not a policy question. People.

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For the family bookshelf

Same idea, written for a younger reader. Good for reading together.

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Yangsook Choi

Your name is yours to keep

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The Circuit

Francisco Jiménez

Mexico

A migrant childhood told with devastating simplicity.

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Islandborn

Junot Día

Puerto Rico

A girl tries to remember the island she left as a baby.

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Seedfolks

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An empty lot in Cleveland. Thirteen strangers. One garden.

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