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The good immigrant : 26 writers reflect on America / edited by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman.

Contributor(s): Shukla, Nikesh [editor.] | Suleyman, Chimène [editor.] | Khakpour, Porochista. How to write Iranian-America, or The last essay
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Boston : Back Bay Books, 2020Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First Back Bay books trade paperback editionDescription: xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0316524239; 9780316524230Other title: Twenty-six writers reflect on AmericaSubject(s): Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century | Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryLOC classification: E184.A1 | G59 2020Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
How to write Iranian-America, or the last essay / Porochista Khakpour -- Swimmer / Nicole Dennis-Benn -- Sidra (in 12 movements) / Rahawa Haile -- On the blackness of the panther / Teju Cole -- How not to be / Priya Minhas -- After migration: the once and future kings / Walé Oyéjidé -- On loneliness / Fatimah Asghar -- Chooey-Booey and brown / Tejal Rao -- Luck of the Irish / Maeve Higgins -- Her name was India / Krutika Mallikarjuna -- Shithole nation / Jim St. Germain -- Blond girls in Cheongsams / Jenny Zhang -- The naked man / Chigozie Obioma -- Your father's country / Alexander Chee -- The long answer / Yann Mounir Demange -- An American, told / Jean Hannah Edelstein -- On being Kim Kardashian / Chimene Suleyman -- Tour Diary / Basim Usmani -- Dispatches from the language wars / Daniel José Older -- Juana Azurduy versus Christopher Columbus / Adrián and Sebastián Villar Rojas -- No es suficiente / Dani Fernandez -- Skittles / Fatima Farheen Mirza -- Return to Macondo / Susanne Ramírez de Arellano -- 244 Million / Mona Chalabi -- How to center your own story / Jade Chang.

Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, February 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.

How to write Iranian-America, or the last essay / Porochista Khakpour -- Swimmer / Nicole Dennis-Benn -- Sidra (in 12 movements) / Rahawa Haile -- On the blackness of the panther / Teju Cole -- How not to be / Priya Minhas -- After migration: the once and future kings / Walé Oyéjidé -- On loneliness / Fatimah Asghar -- Chooey-Booey and brown / Tejal Rao -- Luck of the Irish / Maeve Higgins -- Her name was India / Krutika Mallikarjuna -- Shithole nation / Jim St. Germain -- Blond girls in Cheongsams / Jenny Zhang -- The naked man / Chigozie Obioma -- Your father's country / Alexander Chee -- The long answer / Yann Mounir Demange -- An American, told / Jean Hannah Edelstein -- On being Kim Kardashian / Chimene Suleyman -- Tour Diary / Basim Usmani -- Dispatches from the language wars / Daniel José Older -- Juana Azurduy versus Christopher Columbus / Adrián and Sebastián Villar Rojas -- No es suficiente / Dani Fernandez -- Skittles / Fatima Farheen Mirza -- Return to Macondo / Susanne Ramírez de Arellano -- 244 Million / Mona Chalabi -- How to center your own story / Jade Chang.

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