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Immigration in Literature

Immigration is never not in the news. For our quiz this issue, we focus on some outstanding literature based on the immigrant experience, most of it from this century or very late 20th century.

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Answer the following:

1. Name the novel in which a British-Palestinian actor returns to Haifa to visit her sister in the family summer home and ends up agreeing to play Gertrude in an Arabic production of Hamlet in the West Bank.
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad


2. Set in the center of East LA. gang life, name this novel of two teenaged girls, one of whom rises to become jefe in her own right.
Locas by Yxta Maya Murray

3. What is the title of the novel that follows the lives of two Afghan women, Mariam and Laila, spanning several decades and touching on themes of immigration, war, and family?
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

4. What is the title of the non-fiction work of 2024, filled with true-life stories, that explores the relationship between the US and Central America which contributed so heavily to the current border crisis?
Everyone Who is Gone is Here by Jonathan Blitzer

5. In which novel does a young Pakistani man recount his experiences living in America both before and after the September 11 attacks?
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

6. Name the novel that tells the story of a young Haitian woman who immigrates to New York City and grapples with her family's past.
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

7. Which novel follows a Russian immigrant living in a dystopian future America?
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

8. Who wrote the memoir which recounts the author's experiences growing up as an Iranian immigrant in Whittier, California?
Firoozeh Dumas

9.  Which author wrote the novel which follows the lives of a Cameroonian immigrant family living in New York City during the 2008 financial crisis?
Imbolo Mbue

10. In Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the protagonist Ifemelu moves from Nigeria to America for college. What career does she pursue that leads her to explore issues of race and identity?
Journalism

11. Name the novel that follows the life of a young Chilean woman who immigrates to America and becomes a successful businesswoman?
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

12. Name the novel in which a couple flee a civil war in their unnamed country through a series of mysterious doors that have opened up around the world, allowing people to pass through to locations far away..
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

13.  Name the novel in which the narrator is both a captain in the South Vietnamese Army and a spy for the North Vietnamese.
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

14.  Who wrote the novel which consists of sixteen interwoven stories about conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters?
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

15. In The Lowland, which two countries are central to the immigrant experience of the characters Subhash and Udayan?
India and Bangladesh

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