|a New York |a Boston : |b Back Bay Books, |c 2020. |a First Back Bay Books trade paperback edition. |a The good immigrant : |b 26 writers reflect on America / |c edited by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman. |a YDX |b eng |e rda |c YDX |d YDXIT |d OCLCO |d I3U |d OCLCF |d OCL |d COW By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, the essays in The Good Immigrant come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of America now.

These writers, and the many others in this singular collection, share powerful personal stories of living between cultures and languages while struggling to figure out who they are and where they belong. Alexander Chee writes of a visit to Korea that changed his relationship to his heritage. Fatimah Asghar describes the flood of memory and emotion triggered by an encounter with an Uber driver from Kashmir. Jenny Zhang analyzes cultural appropriation in 90s fashion, recalling her own pain and confusion as a teenager trying to fit in.

Chigozie Obioma unpacks an Igbo proverb that helped him navigate his journey to America from Nigeria. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by Zadie Smith as 'lively and vital,' editors Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman hand the microphone to an incredible range of writers whose humanity and right to be here is under attack. From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. Presents essays by first- and second-generation immigrant writers on the realities of immigration, multiculturalism, and marginalization in an increasingly divided America.

The good immigrant authors