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My Grandfather's an Immigrant, and So Is Yours

Author : Michael Chin
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book My Grandfather's an Immigrant, and So Is Yours written by Michael Chin and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Chen grows up half-Chinese in a conservative small town in Upstate New York. The times are changing as relationships transform, the town's history is uncovered, and the 2016 presidential election looms. My Grandfather's an Immigrant and So is Yours probes the personal and the worldly, the timely and the timeless in a fragmented coming of age tale. An elegant journey through the memories that shaped an adolescence, illuminating truths both universal and personal along the way. A quietly propulsive story that takes us in search of happiness and self at their most elemental. Karen Hattrup, author of Frannie and Tru and Our Year in Love and Parties It's difficult to put this book down without feeling sadness for all the kids who've had to sort through all the issues that have infantilized us as adults, but also a tentative optimism that writers like Chin will lead us toward a saner, more artful future. Benjamin Drevlow, author of Ina-Baby, A Love Story in Reverse and Bend with the Knees and Other Love Advice from My Father

The Distance Between Us

Author : Reyna Grande
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451661789
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Distance Between Us written by Reyna Grande and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the author's experiences as an illegal child immigrant, describing her father's violent alcoholism, her efforts to obtain a higher education, and the inspiration of Latina authors.

Grandfather's Journey

Author : Allen Say
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547350538
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Grandfather's Journey written by Allen Say and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book masterpiece from Caldecott medal winner Allen Say now available in paperback! Lyrical, breathtaking, splendid—words used to describe Allen Say’s Grandfather’s Journey when it was first published. At once deeply personal yet expressing universally held emotions, this tale of one man’s love for two countries and his constant desire to be in both places captured readers’ attention and hearts. Fifteen years later, it remains as historically relevant and emotionally engaging as ever.

I Dream of Popo

Author : Livia Blackburne
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1250819954
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book I Dream of Popo written by Livia Blackburne and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Livia Blackburne and illustrator Julia Kuo, here is I Dream of Popo. This delicate, emotionally rich picture book celebrates a special connection that crosses time zones and oceans as Popo and her granddaughter hold each other in their hearts forever. I dream with Popo as she rocks me in her arms. I wave at Popo before I board my flight. I talk to Popo from across the sea. I tell Popo about my adventures. When a young girl and her family emigrate from Taiwan to America, she leaves behind her beloved popo, her grandmother. She misses her popo every day, but even if their visits are fleeting, their love is ever true and strong. A New York Public Library Best Book of 2021 A Booklist Editors' Choice Winner for 2021

Immigrant Secrets

Author : John F. Mancini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Secrets written by John F. Mancini and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My father never mentioned his Italian immigrant family. Never. We only knew - or thought we knew - that his parents died in the 1930s. Except they didn't. I spent decades working with records managers, archivists, and genealogists on the technologies used to preserve information. Despite this, I never spent any time looking at my own family history. The only thing my father ever said about his family was that his parents died in the 1930s. Once I began the search for my grandparents, I mostly ran into frustrating dead-ends - until the release of the 1940 Census. My grandparents magically appeared in the Census - but as "inmates" at the Rockland Insane Asylum - along with an extended family of aunts and uncles and cousins, all living within driving distance, but never mentioned.What happened? Who were these people? And why all the secrecy?The book is part mystery, part family history, part historical reconstruction. The story in the book of the search itself is a rather typical family history journey, albeit one that revealed things I never could have imagined about our family. The story in the book of my Italian grandparents is in fact a story. But it is, as they say in the movie industry, "based on a true story." As Christian columnist and New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans said in her 2018 book Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, "Origin stories are rarely straightforward history. Over the years, they morph into a colorful amalgam of truth and myth, nostalgia and cautionary tale."

Made in China

Author : Anna Qu
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1646220358
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Made in China written by Anna Qu and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future. As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with consequences that impact the rest of her life. Nearly twenty years later, estranged from her mother and working at a Manhattan start-up, Qu requests her OCFS report. When it arrives, key details are wrong. Faced with this false narrative, and on the brink of losing her job as the once-shiny start-up collapses, Qu looks once more at her life's truths, from abandonment to an abusive family to seeking dignity and meaning in work. Traveling from Wenzhou to Xi'an to New York, Made in China is a fierce memoir unafraid to ask thorny questions about trauma and survival in immigrant families, the meaning of work, and the costs of immigration.

My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks

Author : Brenda J. Child
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873519388
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks written by Brenda J. Child and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2014 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Child uses her grandparents' story as a gateway into discussion of various kinds of labor and survival in Great Lakes Ojibwe communities, from traditional ricing to opportunistic bootlegging, from healing dances to sustainable fishing. The result is a portrait of daily work and family life on reservations in the first half of the twentieth century"--

Drawn Together

Author : Minh Lê
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1368022502
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Drawn Together written by Minh Lê and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recipient of six starred reviews and the APALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature! Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Smithsonian, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Booklist, the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, BookRiot, the New York Public Library, the Chicago Public Library-and many more! When a young boy visits his grandfather, their lack of a common language leads to confusion, frustration, and silence. But as they sit down to draw together, something magical happens-with a shared love of art and storytelling, the two form a bond that goes beyond words. With spare, direct text by Minh Lê and luminous illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat, this stirring picturebook about reaching across barriers will be cherished for years to come. A Junior Library Guild selection!

Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash

Author : Tammy Pasterick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1647421926
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash written by Tammy Pasterick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s Pittsburgh, 1910—the golden age of steel in the land of opportunity. Eastern European immigrants Janos and Karina Kovac should be prospering, but their American dream is fading faster than the colors on the sun-drenched flag of their adopted country. Janos is exhausted from a decade of twelve-hour shifts, seven days per week, at the local mill. Karina, meanwhile, thinks she has found an escape from their run-down ethnic neighborhood in the modern home of a mill manager—until she discovers she is expected to perform the duties of both housekeeper and mistress. Though she resents her employer’s advances, they are more tolerable than being groped by drunks at the town’s boarding house. When Janos witnesses a gruesome accident at his furnace on the same day Karina learns she will lose her job, the Kovac family begins to unravel. Janos learns there are people at the mill who pose a greater risk to his life than the work itself, while Karina—panicked by the thought of returning to work at the boarding house—becomes unhinged and wreaks a path of destruction so wide that her children are swept up in the storm. In the aftermath, Janos must rebuild his shattered family with the help of an unlikely ally. Impeccably researched and deeply human, Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash delivers a timeless message about mental illness while paying tribute to the sacrifices America’s immigrant ancestors made.

Canio's Secret: A Memoir of Ethnicity, Electricity, and my Immigrant Grandfather's Wisdom

Author : Greg Grieco
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483482251
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Canio's Secret: A Memoir of Ethnicity, Electricity, and my Immigrant Grandfather's Wisdom written by Greg Grieco and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950s Chicago, a boy hides in his closet to escape a father's habitual rage. There he conjures up another paternal figure in his artistic Italian grandfather, Canio Grieco. With his wondrous tricks and stories of "Italy," his library and drawings, his baseball and opera, Canio becomes the model of creativity for the lonely, introverted grandson who learns to survive through ingenuity, imagination, and electricity. Canio's Secret is a coming-of-age story about young Greg's struggle to find solace in his mother's Catholicism and break free of his father's anger. Told through intimate portraits of parents and grandparents, nuns and janitors, friends and local characters, and their unsettling, often humorous, encounters, it is also the vibrant portrait of a multi-ethnic neighborhood soon to be scattered by white flight. As the older writer ponders his grandfather's influence, the memoir becomes a meditation on Canio's enigmatic advice, spoken in the summer of 1953: "Happiness is all that's required."

Letters from Cuba

Author : Ruth Behar
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525516492
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Cuba written by Ruth Behar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pura Belpré Award Winner Ruth Behar's inspiring story of a Jewish girl who escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, where she works to rescue the rest of her family The situation is getting dire for Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II. Esther's father has fled to Cuba, and she is the first one to join him. It's heartbreaking to be separated from her beloved sister, so Esther promises to write down everything that happens until they're reunited. And she does, recording both the good--the kindness of the Cuban people and her discovery of a valuable hidden talent--and the bad: the fact that Nazism has found a foothold even in Cuba. Esther's evocative letters are full of her appreciation for life and reveal a resourceful, determined girl with a rare ability to bring people together, all the while striving to get the rest of their family out of Poland before it's too late. Based on Ruth Behar's family history, this compelling story celebrates the resilience of the human spirit in the most challenging times.

Sweet Pizza

Author : G. R. Gemin
Publisher : Nosy Crow
ISBN 13 : 0857637835
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Pizza written by G. R. Gemin and published by Nosy Crow. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joe tasted a mouthful he was amazed how delicious it was - a dense taste, better than any pasta he'd eaten before. Food was suddenly different - he felt as if his taste buds were doing the cha-cha-cha onStrictly. Joe loves his Italian heritage: the language, the opera, the lasagne! But it's hard to celebrate his Italian roots in Bryn Mawr, South Wales, where his mam is sick of running the family's tatty café. Just like his great-grandfather, who opened the café in 1929, Joe is an entrepreneur. He vows to save the family business, and to spice up the tired High Street with a little Italian flavour! This is a heart-warming story about bringing a diverse community together and the amazing history of Italian immigrants in Wales. From the author of Cowgirl, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Cover illustration by Tom Clohosy Cole. "The warmth and charm of 'Sweet Pizza' are quite extraordinary; though there are some very moving moments, it is mainly a joyous and eccentric comedy." Kate Saunders, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Judge Also by G. R. Gemin: Cowgirl

Tea with Milk

Author : Allen Say
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0395904951
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Tea with Milk written by Allen Say and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After growing up near San Francisco, a young Japanese woman returns with her parents to their native Japan, but she feels foreign and out of place.

How to Find What You're Not Looking For

Author : Veera Hiranandani
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525555048
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book How to Find What You're Not Looking For written by Veera Hiranandani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New historical fiction from a Newbery Honor–winning author about how middle schooler Ariel Goldberg's life changes when her big sister elopes following the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, and she's forced to grapple with both her family's prejudice and the antisemitism she experiences, as she defines her own beliefs. Cover may vary. Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves the party. Her family's Jewish bakery runs into financial trouble, and her older sister has eloped with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage. As change becomes Ariel's only constant, she's left to hone something that will be with her always--her own voice.

White Ivy

Author : Susie Yang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982100613
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book White Ivy written by Susie Yang and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A truly addictive read” (Glamour) about how a young woman’s crush on a privileged former classmate becomes a story of love, lies, and dark obsession, offering stark insights into the immigrant experience, as it hurtles to its electrifying ending in this “twisty, unputdownable, psychological thriller” (People). Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Boston, Ivy’s immigrant grandmother relies on Ivy’s mild appearance for cover as she teaches her granddaughter how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops. Thieving allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen—and, most importantly, to attract the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. But when Ivy’s mother discovers her trespasses, punishment is swift and Ivy is sent to China, and her dream instantly evaporates. Years later, Ivy has grown into a poised yet restless young woman, haunted by her conflicting feelings about her upbringing and her family. Back in Boston, when Ivy bumps into Sylvia Speyer, Gideon’s sister, a reconnection with Gideon seems not only inevitable—it feels like fate. Slowly, Ivy sinks her claws into Gideon and the entire Speyer clan by attending fancy dinners, and weekend getaways to the cape. But just as Ivy is about to have everything she’s ever wanted, a ghost from her past resurfaces, threatening the nearly perfect life she’s worked so hard to build. Filled with surprising twists and a nuanced exploration of class and race, White Ivy is a “highly entertaining,” (The Washington Post) “propulsive debut” (San Francisco Chronicle) that offers a glimpse into the dark side of a woman who yearns for success at any cost.

Common Sense

Author : Tom Pain
Publisher : Page Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662415036
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Common Sense written by Tom Pain and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to represent the thought process of an independent, middle-class voter. After a lifetime of experience in a wide range of occupations, the author hopes to express opinions using humor and insight by adding a variety of personal-interest vignettes that are presented as commentary. Independents will have a significant impact on the 2020 elections. The reasons why I voted for Donald Trump were articulated in detail and were based on my analysis of what an average, hardworking American, Middle Class Independent Voter felt about the Political, Cultural, and Economic conditions that existed at the onset of the 2016 Presidential Election. Donald Trump appeared on the scene at the precise time he was needed. The Middle Class was hurting financially and their dreams for a better life had been ignored by both parties for decades. Spending so many years working dead end jobs or even two jobs barely allowed us to keep our heads above water. The politically correct culture wars drained our strength and tested our patience. The political parties that we had trusted were, elitist, disappointing and arrogant which is why we became Independent voters! Donald Trump instinctively knew we were ripe for the picking. We instinctively knew that he was the right one to pick. And we did!

What My Bones Know

Author : Stephanie Foo
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593238125
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book What My Bones Know written by Stephanie Foo and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life “Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, NPR, Mashable, She Reads, Publishers Weekly By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. Both of Foo’s parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she’d moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD. In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don’t move on from trauma—but you can learn to move with it. Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body—and examines one woman’s ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.