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The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.02 � 278,303 ratings � published 2003
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.34 � 562,220 ratings � published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.47 � 378,752 ratings � published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.32 � 396,039 ratings � published 2013
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.18 � 201,379 ratings � published 1999
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.25 � 531,482 ratings � published 2021
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.03 � 359,550 ratings � published 2019
Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.13 � 95,163 ratings � published 2008
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.97 � 698,951 ratings � published 1989
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.79 � 168,671 ratings � published 2000
Yellowface (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.74 � 835,894 ratings � published 2023
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.20 � 42,524 ratings � published 2020
The Refugees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.87 � 21,497 ratings � published 2017
Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.18 � 46,464 ratings � published 2016
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.69 � 216,026 ratings � published 1984
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.10 � 156,937 ratings � published 2020
Home Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.02 � 69,611 ratings � published 2017
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.73 � 81,960 ratings � published 2007
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.87 � 95,314 ratings � published 2013
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.89 � 273,146 ratings � published 2007
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.45 � 54,084 ratings � published 2005
Afterparties (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.94 � 14,293 ratings � published 2021
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.84 � 590,872 ratings � published 2014
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.74 � 397,853 ratings � published 1958
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.23 � 47,628 ratings � published 2008
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.21 � 83,881 ratings � published 2024
Cold Enough for Snow (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.70 � 16,505 ratings � published 2022
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.51 � 64,255 ratings � published 2022
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.16 � 368,157 ratings � published 2022
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.36 � 36,045 ratings � published 2016
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.93 � 108,124 ratings � published 2017
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.36 � 38,355 ratings � published 2017
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.06 � 129,921 ratings � published 2013
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.55 � 112,444 ratings � published 1963
This Is How You Lose Her (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.74 � 99,244 ratings � published 2010
Stay True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.01 � 41,401 ratings � published 2022
Maame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.06 � 116,434 ratings � published 2023
The Island of Missing Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.15 � 139,583 ratings � published 2021
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.21 � 105,653 ratings � published 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.53 � 153,559 ratings � published 2020
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.85 � 153,201 ratings � published 2019
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.37 � 137,143 ratings � published 2018
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.74 � 146,713 ratings � published 2017
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.95 � 83,770 ratings � published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.40 � 353,502 ratings � published 2015
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.01 � 130,374 ratings � published 2015
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.34 � 173,315 ratings � published 2006
How the GarcÃa Girls Lost Their Accents (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 3.62 � 31,758 ratings � published 1991
Funny Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.05 � 8,573 ratings � published 1994
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as diaspora)
avg rating 4.35 � 3,359,098 ratings � published 2003
“Isn't content also context? I ask him. Your experiences, your circumstances, the time you live in? Consciousness isn't free-floating; it's enmeshed.
That is true, he says, but you know, I believe that the modern diaspora--that so many of us find ourselves somewhere else, migrants of some kind--global, multicultural, less rooted, less dependent on our immediate history of family or country to shape ourselves--all of that is preparing us for a looser and freer understanding of ourselves as content whose context can change.
Nationalism is on the rise, I say.
He nods. That's a throwback. A fear. A refusal of the future. But the future cannot be refused.”
― Frankissstein: A Love Story
That is true, he says, but you know, I believe that the modern diaspora--that so many of us find ourselves somewhere else, migrants of some kind--global, multicultural, less rooted, less dependent on our immediate history of family or country to shape ourselves--all of that is preparing us for a looser and freer understanding of ourselves as content whose context can change.
Nationalism is on the rise, I say.
He nods. That's a throwback. A fear. A refusal of the future. But the future cannot be refused.”
― Frankissstein: A Love Story
“The Door of No Return - real and metaphoric as some places are, mythic to those of us who are scattered in the Americas today. To have one’s belonging lodged in a metaphor is voluptuous intrigue; to inhabit a trope; to be a kind of fiction. To live in the Black Diaspora I think is to live in a fiction - a creation of empires, and also self-creation. It is to be being living inside and outside herself. It is to apprehend the the sign one makes yet to be unable to escape it except in radiant moments of ordinariness made like art. To be a fiction in search of its most resonant metaphor then is even more intriguing.”
― A Map to the Door of No Return
― A Map to the Door of No Return
