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Neha is dying. Lung cancer, a genetic gift from her mother and an invocation to forge a better relationship with her brother and her widowed father before it's too late. The problem is, her brother is an unfunny comedian and her idiot father is a first-generation immigrant who moved to Keighley of all places.

Rakesh is grieving. He lost his mother and his sister to the same illness, and his career as a comedian is flat-lining. Sure, his sister would have claimed that it was because he was simply unfunny, but he can't help feel that there is more to it than that - more to do with who he is and where he comes from rather than the content of his jokes.

Ba has never looked after her two young grandchildren before. After her daughter died, her useless son-in-law dumped them on her doorstep for a month and now she has to try and work out how to bond with two children who are used England, not to the rhythms of Kenya...]]> 343 Nikesh Shukla 1786492792 Nikesh 5 3.67 2018
author: Nikesh Shukla
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Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play is ‘wife of a terrorist�? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressively towards you? How does it feel to hear a child of colour say in a classroom that stories can only be about white people? How does it feel to go ‘home� to India when your home is really London? What is it like to feel you always have to be an ambassador for your race? How does it feel to always tick ‘Other�?

Bringing together 21 exciting black, Asian and minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, The Good Immigrant explores why immigrants come to the UK, why they stay and what it means to be ‘other� in a country that doesn’t seem to want you, doesn’t truly accept you � however many generations you’ve been here � but still needs you for its diversity monitoring forms.

Inspired by discussion around why society appears to deem people of colour as bad immigrants � job stealers, benefit scroungers, undeserving refugees � until, by winning Olympic races or baking good cakes, or being conscientious doctors, they cross over and become good immigrants, editor Nikesh Shukla has compiled a collection of essays that are poignant, challenging, angry, humorous, heartbreaking, polemic, weary and � most importantly � real.]]> 272 Nikesh Shukla 178352295X Nikesh 5 4.31 2016
author: Nikesh Shukla
name: Nikesh
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2016
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